Re: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add potrace.

[Alex Kost]

Ludovic Courtès (2014-10-07 20:59 +0400) wrote:

> Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> From f178a122f3805cbc23119b20c2144cf2a59bed3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Eric Bavier <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 11:13:35 -0500
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add potrace.
>>
>> * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (potrace): New variable.
>
> This part looks good to me, but...
>
>>  gnu/packages/fontutils.scm |   28 ++++++++++++++
>>  gnu/packages/giflib.scm    |   90 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> What about the giflib.scm changes?  Were they intended?  Perhaps giflib
> 5.x can be added in image.scm?

Also "giflib 5.x" will break imlib2.  So after updating giflib package,
imlib2 should either be switched to "giflib-4" or should use a special
patch.

A patch used by "Arch Linux" for making imlib2 work with "giflib 5" may
be found here:

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/imlib2-giflib51.patch?h=packages/imlib2

-- 
Alex