Subject: Re: graphics/tiff does not create libtiffxx.so.3.7
To: Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
From: Idar Tollefsen <idart@performancedesign.no>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/22/2005 15:31:14
> That is called cheating. ;)

Yeah, I know ;)

> If you try to build libtiff outside of pkgsrc, with proper -I and -L 
> flags into pkgsrc, it will build. It's some bug in the chain of CC/g++, 
> libtool, and the pkgsrc compiler wrappers. But I was unable to spot the 
> exact point.

Me too, which is exactly why I cheated :)

But then again, having the C++ library as an option isn't really a bad thing. 
Why install it if I don't need it? There's no other packages using it yet, is 
there (the whole library consists of only a single source file)?


- IT