Re: gEDA: Problems compiling gerbv: -lz, -lm

[Karel Kulhavý <clock@twibright.com>]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 10:25:31PM +0200, Stefan Petersen wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Karel Kulhavý wrote:
> 
> > Can you point to a section of libpng specification saying that the user
> > program may rely on the fact that -lm and -lz will be linked by libpng
> > itself?
> 
> What does "libpng-config --libs" return?

sh-2.05b$ libpng-config --libs
-lpng12 -lz -lm

> 
> 
> > Have you written the program according to the libpng interface specification?
> 
> The _program code_ is OF COURSE written according to the libpng interface
> specification. Your problem is configuration/building.

> 
> I have now changed the configuration of gerbv to use libpng-config
> instead. In CVS and will come in next release.
> 
> If you want goto http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5624,
> download libpng-1.2.6-config.tar.gz, run "./configure ; make ; make install".

I downloaded libpng-1.2.6.tar.bz2 from the same site. It didn't produce
libz and libm dependency.

I follow a general rule that if it isn't stated otherwise and I want to
download a project named foo, I download a file called
foo-<version_number>.tar.bz2

It isn't obvious what action a user should do after coming to libpng homepage
to get a correctly built copy running on his machine. It isn't written
anywhere on the homepage. The libpng project is broken.

A download page of a project should IMHO look like this:
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links/download.html

> 
> I have downloaded above mentioned tar ball, compiled it and run
> "ldd .libs/libpng12.so.0.0.0" which gave the following output:
> 
>         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40033000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40044000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40067000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
> 
> In the output from ldd you see that libpng is dynamically linked to libm
> and libz.
> 
> What are you running on? Linux/*BSD/.., gcc version etc etc?
> 
> /spe