On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:19 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
BLFS policy has always been to use whatever switches are necessary to
build *without* optional dependencies, with a note in the book explaining
what to do if they *are* installed.
I am not trying to say what is right, or what is wrong.
On 07/24/05 09:20:31, Mike Chagnon wrote:
After finishing the install of gnome 2.8, everything was fine except I
could not see jpeg images.
It is likely GTK2. Bit me once.
I'm not sure why the --without-jpeg was added to the configure switches.
It seems better to have a configure error than a
On 07/24/05 14:21:18, Randy McMurchy wrote:
David Jensen wrote these words on 07/24/05 14:06 CST:
I'm not sure why the --without-jpeg was added to the configure
switches.
It seems better to have a configure error than a switch few would
want.
imho
It is there because libjpeg is an *optional*
David Jensen wrote these words on 07/24/05 14:34 CST:
Maybe we should move libjpeg and tiff to Recommended, add a note to
--without-them if not installed. Then have the instructions do the
recommended build.
It's due for an update now anyway.
It would be contrary to the what is stated
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 07/24/05 15:12 CST:
The gtk developers seem to see jpeg as a required dependency. The install
file in the source says
GTK+ requires the following packages:
- The GLib, Pango, and Atk libraries, available at the same location as GTK+
(Either
