[EMBOSS] EMBOSS 5.0.0 compilation fails on SLES9 (no gif support

[ajb at ebi.ac.uk]

Dear Christian,

Support for GIF was restored in gd 2.0.28 on July 21st, 2004. So, as
mentioned in the announcement, just install an up-to-date gd2 on SLES 9
and the compilation will work.

I've updated the development version of README to reflect this.

Alan



> Dear EMBOSS maintainer
>
> Compilation of EMBOSS 5.0.0 on SLES9 (with all graphical devel libs)
> fails, while linking:
>
> gcc -O2 -D__amd64__ -o .libs/aaindexextract aaindexextract.o
> ../nucleus/.libs/libnucleus.so ../ajax/.libs/libajaxg.so
> ../ajax/.libs/libajax.so ../plplot/.libs/libeplplot.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib64
> /usr/lib64/libgd.so -L/usr/lib64 -lXpm -lX11
> /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so -lpng12 -lpng -lz -lm
> -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/emboss5/lib
>
> ../plplot/.libs/libeplplot.so: undefined reference to `gdImageGifPtr'
>
> Configuration:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/emboss5
>
> It seems for me that EMBOSS 5.0.0 is looking for GIF support despite of
> the fact that newer Versions of
> gd don't support gif anymore (cf. README line 65).
>
> Is there any workarround for the problem (I don't bother changing code)?
>
> Best regards
> Christian
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