Re: png non-detection weirdness on FreeBSD

SY> My PNG header files are in /usr/local/include/ but XEmacs SY> still says I don't have em. If I configure with SY> '--with-png=yes' it builds fine and I _do_ have PNG support in SY> the resulting XEmacs... Weird. PB> ok thats bizzare Yeah, but not unprecedented. What happens is that our defaults and auto-detection routines are often homebrew, and interact strangely. Check config.log and see if maybe you've got a header mismatch because of multiple versions. Also look at configure.in and see what checks get short-circuited if you do or don't --with-png=yes. Updating our configure stuff to 2.5x would probably help here (in the sense that we could get rid of a lot of the homebtew stuff in favor of documented standards, so we'd be more likely to get it right the first time, and there would be fewer regressions). But it's non-trivial; Andy tried once and had to revert. Didier just threw in the towel before getting in the ring. :-) -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py