[47503] trunk/dports/science/gdal/Portfile

[Frank Schima]

On Feb 28, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

>
> On Feb 28, 2009, at 13:16, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:17:40PM -0800, jeremyhu at macports.org said:
>>> Revision: 47503
>>>         http://trac.macports.org/changeset/47503
>>> Author:   jeremyhu at macports.org
>>> Date:     2009-02-28 12:17:39 -0800 (Sat, 28 Feb 2009)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> gdal: Updated giflib dependence to be ok with libungif
>>
>> Why?  libungif has been superceded by giflib upstream [1], so  
>> shouldn't we
>> be preferring giflib in all cases now?
>
> Yeah, we're PREFERRING giflib.  As long as libungif remains in the  
> tree, we need to avoid the conflict.
>
> Hence:  path:include/gif_lib.h:giflib
>
> If someone wants to nuke port:libungif (make it a stub that just  
> pulls in giflib), I'll support that.

There's a ticket [1] on this subject. There's still a few ports left  
that depend on libungif that need to be switched. I couldn't get at  
least one of them to compile when I switched the dependency though.


[1] <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17193>


Cheers!
Frank