I'd been going to tag giflib for gcc5, but only after I had been able to confirm it works. I've been building it for _ages_ and assumed that it is generally used for dealing with gif files. Wrong, probably because of the gif history. For example, I had assumed that the ImageMagick coders/gif.so lib for would link to it, but it doesn't.
It is apparently required by kdelibs, and recommended for openjdk, as well as optional for mplayer. So it belongs in the book. But I was surprised to discover that on my normal desktops (no kde, no java, no mplayer) it is more or less redundant - there are a few programs which it installs, but none of them look useful to me, e.g. gif2rgb creates an output file (actually, files until you read the manpage fully!) which 'file' describes as 'data', so no way of telling if it is good or bad. Anyway, now that I've again fired up the gcc5 system with kde, I can confirm that kdelibs used it for libkhtml.so which is used by khelpcenter. So, I can treat it as a build dependency and tag it when I get back to the tags. Summary: never assume that a library is being used! ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
