Re: Gentlemen, start your engines...

[<tim...@en...>]

Lars Hecking wrote:
>  My mails still haven't appeared on the list ...
>
> Timoth?e Lecomte writes:
> [...]=20
>  =20
>> Moreover, there is a problem with gd on systems where GNU libiconv is=20
>> installed. In this case, gnuplot has to be linked against libiconv too=
,=20
>> or undefined references are obtained. The first offender here is=20
>> gdlib-config itself which doesn't report correctly '-liconv' but a ful=
l=20
>> path to libiconv.so. But even if gd gets fixed in a future release (I=20
>> will send the corresponding patch to M. Boutell soon), the configure=20
>> script would not catch it since it doesn't take 'gdlib-config --libs'=20
>> into account. The attached patch fixes this issue too.
>>    =20
>
>  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 a=
ll
>  if gdlib-config is found. Potentially for pdflib, too.
>  =20
What about the attached solution (posted a few days ago) ?
(ignore if you want the changes for AC_ARG_VAR and $GDLIB_CONFIG,=20
although they are useful too)

Best regards,

Timoth=E9e