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probably the matter has been discussed earlier, but not recently, so please excuse me asking: |
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i plan writing an ebuild for my little software project, motiontrack, (motiontrack.sf.net) |
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which needs an image I/O library, either libGD or ImageMagick to compile. |
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but it cant compile against both of them. |
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if only one is present the configure script auto-detects the installed, and compiles with it, |
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if there are both, configure prefers libGD since it might be faster, |
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on the other hand ImageMagick provides better debug output when trying things out (view images on X screen ...) |
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so configure's behaviour can be tweaked to force usage of Imagemagick even if GD is present (or visa versa) |
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the obvious approach would be use-flags ;) , however there are a global useflag both for gd and imagemagick, |
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and the problem persists if both are set. |
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So is there to be an extra-lokal useflag? Or should it silently default to one of the libs? |
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What is if libgd but not imagemagick is installed, but the imagemagick, and not gd useflag is set? |
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compile with the installed libgd and ignore imagemagick? (nah, that would be stupid - or not?) |
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should the ebuild read an env-var like openoffice does for the language? |
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This all are questions i'd like to hear some opinions before trying to write an ebuild. |
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thanx for advice :-) |
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Corvus Corax |
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