Re: Gentlemen, start your engines...

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

 My mails still haven't appeared on the list ...

Timoth?e Lecomte writes:
[...] 
> Moreover, there is a problem with gd on systems where GNU libiconv is 
> installed. In this case, gnuplot has to be linked against libiconv too, 
> or undefined references are obtained. The first offender here is 
> gdlib-config itself which doesn't report correctly '-liconv' but a full 
> path to libiconv.so. But even if gd gets fixed in a future release (I 
> will send the corresponding patch to M. Boutell soon), the configure 
> script would not catch it since it doesn't take 'gdlib-config --libs' 
> into account. The attached patch fixes this issue too.

 I now understand this problem. Linking with gd also requires iconv in
 some cases, but gdlib-config provides iconv in --libs, which we only
 use after configure comes back positive for gd - chicken and egg.

 The only solution I can offer is to do no configure checks for gd at all
 if gdlib-config is found. Potentially for pdflib, too.