flame@yamato Source % ls CacheFile.h FreeImage FreeImageIO.h FreeImageToolkit LibMNG LibPNG Metadata Plugin.h ToneMapping.h ZLib DeprecationManager FreeImage.h FreeImageLib LibJPEG LibOpenJPEG LibTIFF OpenEXR Quantizers.h Utilities.h
I tried fixing this before but it didn't work very well (bug 178110). It'd be great if you could look into it yourself and maybe write a book about it if you want. Upstream devs need convincing too... Thank ye :)
This isn't a bug, it's a design decision by the freeimage people. Close it :-)
(In reply to comment #2) > This isn't a bug, it's a design decision by the freeimage people. It is a bad design decision, therefore it is a bug for us. Freeimage upstream is unneccessarily increasing maintenance for themselves and us.
I've taken a look at freeimage (latest cvs) to try and see if it is possible to get it to use system libraries, the following is what I've found: - OpenEXR : It is possible to use system libs. - libmng : It is possible to use system libs. There's one instance where they use an internal struct instead of api function call (mng_data.bReading vs mng_status_reading), probably either for optimisation or else just old API. - libpng : It is be possible to use system libs. Need to define PNG_iTXt_SUPPORTED after including pngconf.h - libjpeg : It is possible to use system libs, but they still need the jpeg source code as they use functions from jpegtrans which are not in libjpeg (but in jpegtrans executable). This means that bugfixes to jpegtrans still won't automatically fix freeimage. - openjpeg : It is possible to use system libs. Though they seem to be using an unreleased SVN snapshot. - libtiff : They wrote their own wrapper functions to work with their I/O layer. This requires access to some internal structs which are not exposed though tiffio.h (need tiffiop.h). It does link with libtiff if their copy of libtiff is not compiled though. And they use a cvs snapshot one I think. - zlib: It should be possible to use system libs, though they use "OS_CODE" from zutils.h which is not exposed. Sould be possible to work around it. to recap: OpenEXR, libmng, libpng and zlib should be easy to fix. not sure about libjpeg or libtiff. from their changelog they seem to use a svn/cvs snapshots for openjpeg and libtiff, so not sure if they would be willing to support system libs for those.
removed media-libs/freeimage
