Re: 4.4 - Nearing the finish line [was Re: inconsistency between 4.4-cvs and 4.5 for default install]

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 05 March 2010 06:52:39 Manfred Schwarb wrote:
> 
> Another thing: I recently did a static build, it was
> a bit a pain. I had to manually set "#undef HAVE_PWD_H"

I don't see the connection there.  
What does HAVE_PWD_H have to do with a static build?

There was a post on the newsgroup recently that implicitly complained
about HAVE_PWD_H for privacy reasons.  If there is now another down-side
as well, I think we should get rid of this code.  The only thing it does
is fill in extra information in the "author" field of a PostScript or
PDF file header.


> and had to apply
> 
> --- configure.in.orig   2010-03-01 13:44:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ configure.in        2010-03-02 11:55:43.000000000 +0100
> @@ -482,6 +482,7 @@
>      libgd_CPPFLAGS=`gdlib-config --cflags`
>      libgd_LDFLAGS=`gdlib-config --ldflags`
>      libgd_LIBS=`gdlib-config --libs`
> +    libgd_LIBS="$libgd_LIBS -lexpat -pthread"
>    elif test -d "$with_gd"; then
>      libgd_CPPFLAGS="-I$with_gd/include"
>      libgd_LDFLAGS="-L$with_gd/lib"

That seems like a problem with the libgd package configuration tool.
I'll forward a bug report in that direction if I can confirm it.

	Ethan