How does this look, Ben?

https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/695

If you could pull that and give it a spin, let me know if it works for you, 
that would be much appreciated.

        -- lg


On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:59 AM, Larry Gritz wrote:

> It's slightlier tricker than I thought.
> 
> My machine has giflib 4.2, and it seems fine with the code as-is.  Testing 
> for major >= 5 seems overkill.
> 
> I will propose an alternate solution, stay tuned.
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 10, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Ben De Luca wrote:
> 
>> Hi Larry,
>>        I dont need the support, I was just trying to compile and I thought I 
>> would point it out. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's going to be slightly more complex -- that global function will need a 
>> mutex, and will still be a bit error prone because there's no guarantee it's 
>> getting the right error, if there are multiple GIF files being read 
>> simultaneously.
>> 
>> But let me ask a more basic question: do you actually need GIF support, with 
>> only libgif 4, or are you just trying to get a clean compile and the build 
>> system is confused because it sees your system's libgif?  If you are just 
>> after a clean compile and don't need GIF support, then it's a simple matter 
>> of having the build system ensure that it only builds GIF support if libgif 
>> is found AND it's version 5 or above.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Ben De Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We need the ifdef
>> 
>> void
>> GIFInput::report_last_error (void)
>> {
>> #if GIFLIB_MAJOR >= 5
>>     error (GifErrorString (m_gif_file->Error));
>> #else
>>     GifLastError();
>> #endif
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Will GifLastError() work for both libgif 4.1 as well as 5?  Or do we need 
>> some kind of #ifdef switch?
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:03 AM, Ben De Luca wrote:
>> 
>> > Hey,
>> >     trying to compile oiio against libgiff 4.1 ( system provided)
>> >
>> > compilation fails like
>> > /mnt/homes/bdeluca/src/oiio/oiio/src/gif.imageio/gifinput.cpp: In member 
>> > function ‘void OpenImageIO::v1_3::GIFInput::report_last_error()’:
>> > /mnt/homes/bdeluca/src/oiio/oiio/src/gif.imageio/gifinput.cpp:476:27: 
>> > error: ‘GifErrorString’ was not declared in this scope
>> >
>> >
>> > GifErrorString seems to be part of libgiff 5
>> >
>> > changing it too
>> > GifLastError();
>> > probably does some thing closer to what we want.
>> >
>> >

--
Larry Gritz
[email protected]


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