Bug 13633 – kdegraphics compile fails

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description bytesmythe 2003-01-10 06:43:43 UTC]

When installing from scratch from the LiveCD and using the stage 3 tarball, the
Pentium3 optimized build fails while compiling the kdegraphics package. It says
that it cannot find giflib. I did an emerge search for this library, and sure
enough it wasn't on my system.  I realize you probably don't distribute the
library due to LZW patent issues, but if the library is a dependency, why didn't
emerge catch it?

[Comment 1 bytesmythe 2003-01-10 07:04:39 UTC]

I thought I would elaborate a bit on the procedure I followed:

1) Partition drive and mount directories as per instructions
2) Mount packages directory on CD for installing xfree and kde.
3) install gentoo using stage 3 tarball
4) chroot, ran scripts, customized make.conf etc.
5) emerge sync
6) emerge -u world
7) emerge --usepkg xfree
8) emerge --usepkg kde

During step 8, it failed trying to link against libgif. Unfortunately, I don't
have a record of which file it was trying to link at the time. I just know it
was in the kdegraphics package.

[Comment 2 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-01-28 13:39:18 UTC]

giflib should be installed. kuickshow.so (from kdegraphics) links against imlib, which links 
against giflib. 
imlib has a dep on giflib, but I found a problem with the RDEPEND record for imlib. That's not 
my territory so I submitted a new bug #14686 for the right people to handle. 
 
I cannot reproduce any other similar problem. So, unless you can reproduce that situation, 
there's no way for me really to understand what the cause of this was (the above bug 
probably wasn't). 

[Comment 3 Dan Armak (RETIRED) 2003-04-16 12:15:20 UTC]

Well, it should be ok AFAICS, if you have any further info I'll be glad to hear it...