Charles A Edwards wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:16:28 -0500
> Rob wrote:
> 
>> If the LZW patents expired 3 years ago, and the fpx is now 
>> disabled, why do we still need a PLF build of this?
> 
> 
> Well, Unisys still currently holds and has patents pending on
> improvements to the LZW compression algorithm, should all any of these
> be given, then it would open another can of worms so LZW usage needs to
> stay PLF.

Actually, it seems that the option to disable LZW has been removed by
ImageMagick upstream at some point, and other distros have it enabled as
well.

IOW, the Mandriva build has LZW support already. So without fpx, plf
build is useless.

> As to fpx I had no issues building IM-6.3.2.9 or 6.3.3.0 with fpx
> enabled on this system or on my x86_64 cooker system.

Have you tried to actually use the fpx support? Running "make check"
seems to fail.


-- 
Anssi Hannula

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