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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> irOn Sat, 23 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

ir0n?

> I was told to also compile freetype to get libwmf for wmf support.  
> I looked on the web and wmf is a Windows vector graphics format.  
> Nobody ever sent me that - would other people appreciate if I 
> included it?

Wvware's libwmf support is fairly primitive right now. Freetype is
probably not very appropriate for a mini-Linux.

The first time I looked at the wvWare site, I mistakenly thought
that it is used to put bitmap graphics in Word documents.

> > Replace -lpng with /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 when you link it.
> 
> 
> Do I also need to point the compiler at the libc6 so it won't try 
> to use libc5 or does it use the later of the two?

The latter/later.

> The new glibc is needed for opera, lynx, and xpdf, but they don't 
> need a new libz or libpng.  They seem to work fine with the old 
> ones.  But it is probably easier to compile dynamically and not 
> worry about BL3.

Or fully static.

> > All of the netpbm binaries depend upon libnetpbm, so I don't see any
> > advantage to manually compiling some of them.
> 
> The problem I am dealing with is that the tiff programs will not 
> work in BL2 since I have a libtiff in there for libc6 and the one 
> from netpbm replaces it (same synlink, both libtiff.so.3) and then 
> other programs needed libtiff don't work (links2 from delilinux).  
> So I have a choice of the netpbm tiff programs, or links2, in BL2.  
> A statically compiled pair of tiff programs would fix this problem. 
>   Static as regards libtiff, not libnetpbm.  I have not found any 
> need to deal with tiff files but someone else might want the 
> programs.

But since tiffs are so rare, it is not as much of a bother to switch
libraries temporarily, is it?

> I have no idea how to access a library that is not on the path. 
> Would it involve exporting something in profile, like I do to use 
> gs with a device that is not the default?

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib/" tifftopnm

^ looks in /usr/local/lib/ for libraries. You can export it, but then
you're back to square one.

David
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