giflib30 ?? -- How does configure work?

[Marcus Gruendler]

On Fre, 21 Jan 2000 you wrote:
> How does configure know that my link from libgif3.0.0 to libungif3.0.0 is
> not libgif? Even the function calls are the same. The two libraries are

The KDE configure script on which the KDevelop configure script is based only
links a little test program against libgif.so* in the $KDEDIR/lib directory. So
it doesn't see any othe possibly installed libgifs!

Bye, Marcus

> supposed to be source-compatible... I am still trying to figure out if
> installing the "real" libgif3.0.0 is the right thing to do.
> 
> Thanks,
> Leo.
> 
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