configure error: need giflb30...

[Peter Thorstenson]

Thanks a lot!
/Peter Torstenson
-----Original Message-----
From: jbb <jbb at ihug.co.nz>
To: kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de <kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de>
Date: den 7 januari 2000 09:09
Subject: Re: configure error: need giflb30...


>On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>> I'm trying to compile KDK 1.0.0 on my Mandrake 6.1 box.
>> When I run ./configure i get an error message: You need giflib30. Please
>> install kdesupport package.
>> As I said before it is installed. I also checked the file list of the
>> kdesupport package:
>> there is no file with that name.
>> I checked the same kdesupport package from the redhat 6.1 release:
>> there is no file with that name either.
>>
>> Where do I find giflib30 so that I can compile KDK 1.0.0?
>
>That is a nasty, confusing  error message isn't it. :(
>
>The files you're looking for are libgif.so.3*
>
>You can find them in
>
>libungif-4.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm
>libungif-devel-4.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm
>
>There's also libungif-progs-4.1.0-4mdk.i586.rpm  which are some programs
for
>manipulating gif images, which you don't need for kdevelop...
>
>>
>> /Peter Torstenson
>--
>Regards,
>
>jbb
>http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jbb
>