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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > tar -zxvf /cd/slackware/l/libtiff*.tgz usr/lib/libtiff.so.3.5.7
> > tar -zxvf /cd/slackware/l/libtiff*.tgz usr/include/tiff*.h
>
> I did not know that tar could handle wildcards like this.
Me neither.  This is the full tar, I think, not busybox.

> > > cd netpbm-10.31/converter/other/
> > > make tifftopnm
> > > make pnmtotiff
> >
> > Thanks, that worked, but at first I got the error message (on exit):
> > cannot find -ltiff.so (which I think means it cannot find libtiff.so.3) I
> > had told Makefile to look for libtiff.so.3, because there was no
> > libtiff.so.  I had to create a symlink to libtiff.so and edit Makefile.
> >
> > ldd says it needs libtiff.so.3 and libjpeg.so.62 but in Makefile I needed
> > libtiff.so and libjpeg.so - why?
>
> gcc, for some reason, needs lib*.so. Maybe it's too lazy to ignore the
> numbers in the extension.
>
> > Why did it make a lot of /lib/*.h files?
>
> I wonder why it put the .h files in /lib? I would have expected
> /include.

This might be my error.  I am in DOS right now and can't check.

> > This time I told it not to build static libnetbpm.*.a and it did not, so do
> > I need the header files?
>
> Go ahead and delete them.

I am told they are used for compiling other programs that use 
libnetpbm.so, like I needed tiff*.h to compile libnetpbm programs 
dynamically.  I left them out of my netpbm package.

> > I also found it there, but I already have busybox-1.01 on my path instead
> > of BL3 busybox, which did not work with your busybox 1.sh script because
> > two programs were not fully functional.  So I ran the script and now have
> > echo.  It seems to have made the package without it, anyway.
>
> It just uses echo to tell you that it successfully built the package.
I guessed that.

> > > If you want BL2 users to not have to upgrade, then build with the SW71
> > > libraries.
> >
> > I can't use the SW81 compiler and binutils with SW71 libraries and I don't
> > know how to compile with them if I have glibc 2.1.3 and 2.2.5 on the same
> > computer.
>
> I will experiment with SW91 solibs and SW71 full-size libc. First I need
> to download compiling libc, it's 20MB, which means I have a long wait.
> I will set up a script to connect and download it tonight.

Thanks.   I made a real mess of things trying to use SW81 solibs and SW71 
full-size libc.  Even as stopped working.  Try this on an experimental 
installation, not something you care about.  What is 'compiling libc' - 
libc.so?  Sorry about the large complete netpbm packages, but at least you 
can tell me what other programs to include this way.

> > Would you like a .tgz of all the bin files (1.2MB) and libnetpbm and
> > libtiff, libpng, and zlib?  (libjpeg has not changed since 1998 - you can
> > get it from Slackware 7.1).
>
> The .tgz was bigger than 1.2MB. I think that you can safely remove
> /usr/local/bin/netpbmbinlibc6.tgz from netpbm-SW81-full.tgz and cut
> its size in half.

Thanks, I obviously goofed on that one.  I wondered why it was so large 
but forgot to look in subdirectories.

> > Should tifftopnm still work if I can manage to replace libtiff.so.3.5.7
> > with libtiff.so.3.8.0 later?
>
> Yup. It even works with libtiff.so.3.4?? from SW71.

I will upload a smaller full package and then an even smaller selected 
package tomorrow (in 15 instead of 30 minutes).

> David
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