gEDA-dev: gdlib required for gEDA/gaf?

[Stuart Brorson]

I just installed libgd to accomodate building pcb.   I was just asking
because I had never seen libgd as a gEDA/gaf dependency before.  I was
a little suprised!

As for keeping/removing it, I don't have a strong opinion.  Fewer
dependencies are always better, but if it's required for PCB, then it
doesn't hurt that gEDA/gaf uses it also.

Better would be if both PCB and gEDA/gaf got rid of libgd.  :-)

Stuart


On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Ales Hvezda wrote:

> Hi Stuart,
>
> [snip]
>> I find it curious that gEDA is looking for gd.h.  Is this a new
>> dependacy?  Yes, gdlib is required for building PCB, but requiring it
>> for gEDA/gaf is new.  Or am I wrong?
>>
>
> 	Do you have gd.h (libgd-devel) installed on this machine?
>
> 	Yes, this is a new [optional] requirement for gEDA/gaf.  gdlib
> has replaced libgdgeda.  Note, this requirement might go away in the next
> release as Carlos has made several good points in getting rid of gEDA/gaf's
> use of libgd.
>
> 								-Ales
>
>
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