George Patterson wrote

> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> (Perhaps this should have been on the devel list but it is somewhat
> peripheral to the FlightGear project itself)
> 
> I was helping CovusCorax on irc to compile Flightgear from CVS who
> commented that libungif is deprecated. After searching google, I have
> found that Gentoo has depecated the project in favour of libgif
> 
> He (I hope I don't get kicked for assuming was following
> http://wiki.flightgear.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=OpenSceneGraph
> 
> Could someone advise on this issue? Perhaps this is Gentoo centric.
> 
> Workaround given from our irc conversation:-
> 
> <CorvusCorax> gorilla: OpenSceneGraph has a hack to use libungif instead
> of libgif - but afaik ungif is discontinued doe to the gif patent having
> run out -- after changing all "-lungif" into "-lgif" in the
> openScenegraph makefiles it compiled
> 
> 

I don't think we need gif stuff in osg for FlightGear - I have removed it
here and FG works fine.

You may, of course, need it for other apps.

Vivian 


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