Yesterday Matt Zimmerman wrote: | I don't see the point of ripping JPEG support out of libgd. The reason I link | rrdtool the way I do is that Debian contains a package for the gd library, | version 1.8.4, as well as libpng and zlib. It would be inappropriate to link | rrdtool with a different version of this library than the one used by the rest | of the system.
as long as you life in a system where you have a large set of sharedlibraries with all tools in-sync this is fine ... in a large environment like the place where I work (hundreds of workstations) all running software of the same server ... this is not the case ... (http://sepp.ee.ethz.ch) ... | Actually, I have noticed that the old libgd package (with GIF) support has been | resurrected in a new package in Debian (with a different library name) to | support programs like rrdtool which require the GIF version of the library. I | intend to link the next upload of rrdtool against this library, and restore GIF | support and compatibility with vanilla rrdtool. wonderful tobi | | -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, Timelord & SysMgr @ EE-Dept ETH-Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / TEL: +41(0)1-6325286 FAX:...1517 ICQ: 10419518 /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-developers WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
