Re: [PATCH] Pull -lz for the script backend

Bryce Harrington <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 03:48:57PM +0200, Olivier Blin wrote:
> Le 12/08/2016 à 15:08, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit :
> >On 12.08.2016 11:04, Olivier Blin wrote:
> >
> >>> Looks like this would silently disable the script backend if libz
> >>> is missing. IMHO, a very bad idea - instead it should break with a
> >>> proper error message.
> >> This is actually copy/paste of what is already properly done for the
> >> PostScript and PDF backends.
> >>
> >> CAIRO_ENABLE_SURFACE_BACKEND(pdf, PDF, yes, [
> >>     # The pdf backend requires zlib.
> >>     use_pdf=$have_libz
> >>     pdf_NONPKGCONFIG_LIBS=-lz
> >> ])
> >
> >Right, there seems to be the same problem.
> >I'd suggest emitting an error here.
> Ok, but this is a separate issue that was already present in the
> previous configure file.
> This can be fixed regardless of this patch.
> 
> Thanks for your input

Would you mind sending a 2-patch set that fixes both issues for us?

Thanks,
Bryce

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