On Tuesday 25 April 2006 14:06, Dan McMahill wrote: > 1) just detect no gif support in GD and turn off the GIF output. I > don't like this because I don't like the way some autoconf based > programs enable and disable user visible features based on what it finds > on your system. Thats why PCB will spit out a message saying "your GD > doesn't support this, if you still want to continue, you need to add > --disable-gif" That way you have explicitly acknowledged that you are > not going to get GIF support and you know why. > > 2) never support gif output. This also seemed lame. > > Maybe what I need to do is detect your strange condition where > > --disable-gif && --disable-jpeg && --disable-png are all listed and then > try and take out the png HID entirely.
The issue this leaves is that if they use --disable-gif, and libz is not available to link, the link will fail. It seems to me that --disable-gif should not still require libz to still be there. Regards, Daniel
