Re: help w/ configure

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Shaleh wrote:

> I have a library package that CAN link against giflib.  So Luis and I
> agreed to make a free and a non-free.  One linked w/ giflib and one

If you only link against giflib, your package is not "non-free". Instead
it goes to contrib.

> not.  The upstream maintainer assumes that you want the giflib and gave
> no way to disable it.  So I need to add a --with-gif ( or --without-gif)
> to configure to disable/enable gif support.  My current package seems to
> ignore this switch and links my free lib against a non-free giflib.

Hard to say without more information (makefiles, your installed library,...).
Have you set up the correct LibraryPath for linking (-L)?

Regards,

  Ulf

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