Re: [gentoo-dev] giflib and libungif hell

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 21 March 2005 11:47, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > >> 3) libungif does some weird thing where it deletes the giflib header
> > >> file
> > >> (probably because they aren't blocking each other?)
> > >
> > > Huh???
> >
> > /usr/include/gif_lib.h
>
> If they now do this, then somebody broke them recently:
>
> -----
> nosferatu linux-2.6-bk # epm -ql libungif | grep include
> nosferatu linux-2.6-bk # epm -ql giflib | grep include
> /usr/include/gif_lib.h
> nosferatu linux-2.6-bk #
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They don't blindly overwrite each other. If USE gif is set libungif installs 
gif_lib.h; otherwise giflib installs it. (Or the other way around, I'm not 
sure anymoer).

If you change the value of USE gif between installing giflib and libungif, you 
can get a system with no gif_lib.h, or a system where both packages install 
it, overwriting it. (It's not checksum-identical between the two packages.)

Do read bug 18820. I filed it about this two years ago and nothing changed 
since. 

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