[Slackbuilds-users] anyone planning a package for fly?

[Grant]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:33:32 -0600, Robby Workman <rworkman at slackbuilds.org> wrote:

>Grant wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> Fly is a small program that provides a text interface to gd, it requires 
>> a small patch to compile under slack-11 (I'm not using slack-12 yet but 
>> the same patch is required).
>> 
>> The patch:
>> 
>> In order to compile fly I had to remove the -lttf lib option:
>> 
>> --- Makefile.orig       2001-11-25 19:39:28.000000000 +1100
>> +++ Makefile    2007-12-07 03:10:12.000000000 +1100
>> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
>>  CC = gcc
>> 
>>  CFLAGS = -O -pedantic -Wall $(INCDIRS) $(LIBDIRS)
>> -LIBS = -lgd -lm -lz -lttf -lpng -ljpeg #-lXpm
>> +LIBS = -lgd -lm -lz -lpng -ljpeg #-lXpm
>> 
>>  all: fly
>> 
>> 
>> I'm wondering if this tiny app is worth packaging?
>> 
>> Source: <http://martin.gleeson.com/fly/dist/fly-2.0.0.tar.gz>
>
>
>We don't currently have it in pending queue, so feel free.

Okay!
>
>I'm curious about the change though - what's that -lttf trying
>to link?  ImageMagick's ttf.so or something else?

The fly program is from 2001, it references the old ttf library before 
truetype came along (I used a perl interface to gd back in '01), but 
fly doesn't provide an interface to the gd ttf strings anyway, so the 
include is spurious.  Fly's author made no comment on the change when 
I wrote him.

New toy using fly is demo'd here: http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/system/

Cheers,
Grant.
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