no more gif problem + nice surprise

[Godmar Back]

> 
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > 
> > On Apr 16, 1999, Maksim Lin <maksim at swin.edu.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > Well I'm not sure what I did (all I did was delete a few symlinks and
> > > put them back again) but gifs are now working fine with beta4, though
> > > the Kaffe exe still reports that it's linked to both v4 & v3 of
> > > libungif.
> > 
> > Kaffe's configure script looks for both libgif and libungif, and links
> > with both of them.  I'm not sure this is right, though; we should
> > probably not look for one of them if we find the other.  But I don't
> > know which one is to be preferred, does anybody?
> > 
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> 
> No I meant both versions 3 & 4 of _only_ libungif, here's what I mean:
> >ldd /usr/local/kaffe/libexec/Kaffe
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40004000)
>         libjpeg.so.6 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6 (0x4001d000)
>         libpng.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.0 (0x4003b000)
> 
>         libungif.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libungif.so.4 (0x40054000)
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 	libungif.so.3 => /usr/lib/libungif.so.3 (0x4005d000)
> 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>         libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40064000)
>         libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4006f000)
>         libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40077000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4008b000)
>         libkaffevm-1.0b4.so =>
> /usr/local/kaffe-1b4/lib/libkaffevm-1.0b4.so (0x40122000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40171000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40174000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)          
> 
> Gif's do load, but what I'm worried about is that it only works by
> coincidence.  From my understanding when kaffe gets compiled it should
> look for say version 4 (which it needs for a new function) and link
> against it the libungif.so.4 soname. So why is it also linking against
> libungif.so.3 ?
> Can someone else check their kaffe exe and tell us whether it is also
> linked like this or is it just my wacky systems (happens on both my
> RH5.0 machine here at uni & RH5.2 at home).
> 

FWIW, I'm seeing that ldd output too.  I don't know what's going on
either.

	- Godmar