Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/graphics/tiff
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>
From: Dieter Baron <dillo@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 01/10/2005 00:44:34
In article <20050109230954.GA94736@phoenix.buildlink.org> Johnny wrote:
: > Passing --enable-c++ to configure results in the following error message:
: >
: > configure: error: invalid feature name: c++
: Whoops, that wasn't meant to be part of the commit. I've removed that
: option now.
Thanks.
: > Also, would this (still) make libtiff.so a C++ library? If so, I
: > would prefer this to be an option or a separate pacakge.
: libtiff.so is still currently a C++ library, but I've sent some patches
: to tech-pkg@ to create a separate libtiffcxx.so library for use by C++
: applications. It's meant to be used directly in place of libtiff.so,
: i.e. instead of linking against -ltiff, you link against -ltiffcxx.
: It also leaves libtiff.so as a plain C-linkage library again.
Yes, your proposed patches look fine. Will you also be sending them
to the tiff maintainers?
thanks for handling this,
dillo