Re: User specified location of GD not carried into Makefiles

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

I am not clear on what problem you are trying to fix exactly.
The version of libgd found during configuration does not have to be
the same one used at runtime. For instance, I have been working with several
libgd versions since I'be been trying to push fixes upstream to libgd.org.
I have seen no version-compatibility problems when running against any
libgd version from 2.0.29 to 2.0.34-cvs, all with the same gnuplot executable.

[pokes around a bit] OK, Mandrake 10.1 came with 2.0.27 so it didn't have
GIF support. Is that the issue?

Anyhow, even if you force ./configure to use some particular version 
when building gnuplot, at runtime it will still pick the libgd.so.2 
provided by the system setup or by LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Wouldn't it be
easier just to upgrade the system's libgd?

	Ethan



On Sunday 28 January 2007 20:37, m sutton wrote:
> OK.  I think I have a working patch to configure.in to resolve the 
> --with-gd= issues.  The same problem was also present in the 
> --with-pdf section.  I was able to test the --with-gd stuff but not 
> the --with-pdf parts.  However, the same basic logic is used in 
> both.
> 
> Mike Sutton


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742