[Slackbuilds-users] need some advice (re: splix/jbigkit SBos)

[Heinz Wiesinger]

On Tuesday 25 November 2014 12:26:09 Glenn Becker wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been maintaining the SlackBuilds for splix and jbigkit. For a
> while, printing has been an issue with my Samsung ML-2510, but I've
> been too lazy to follow it up (obviously I don't print at home very
> much). Not very responsible of me.
> 
> Anyhoo, the root problem is that splix development appears to have
> stopped -- or at least greatly slowed. The current version of splix
> looks for the library libjbig.2.0.0 ... but the current version of
> the jbigkit library is libjbig.2.1. splix looks for v. 2.0.0, can't
> find it and plotzes.
> 
> I solved the issue on the home front with a symlink, but was wondering
> what SlackBuild best practice I should use in a case like this. Should
> I roll back the jbigkit version?

Did you check how other distros solve the problem? With quick checks I see 
that both Arch and Fedora seems to have splix using jbigkit 2.1 in their 
repos.

Grs,
Heinz
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 213 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/attachments/20141125/a07c42c2/attachment.asc>