[Slackbuilds-users] Issues with tkimg

[B. Watson]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, M Wedin wrote:

> I aim to install mcu8051ide
>
> These are the packages to be installed. Dependencies are indented
>
> mcu8051ide
>  bwidget
>  itcl
> !  tkimg
>    tcllib
>  tDOM
>    gumbo-parser
>
> There is no libtiff on SBo. I searched and installed all of *jbig* I
> could find. No success. Any help is appreciated.

I can confirm that tkimg fails to build, if jbigkit is installed. I get
the same error you do.

What I couldn't figure out, from your message... you installed all
the builds with *jbig* in the name, but why?

Also, it looks like tkimg isn't using the system libtiff at all. It
ships with its own copy of the libtiff source... a rather old version:

$ cat /tmp/SBo/tkimg1.4/compat/libtiff/VERSION 
3.9.4

This version of libtiff gets configured by a command that comes from
tkimg1.4/libtiff/configure, which needs --disable-jbig added to the
--disable-jpeg that's already there...

Two suggestions:

1. M Wedin, you can temporarily removepkg jbigkit, built tkimg, then
    reinstall jbigkit afterwards if you actually need it.

2. Richard Ellis, you might want to patch tkimg to have its embedded
    libtiff build without jbigkit. One way to do it: just after the
    'make distclean' in tkimg.SlackBuild, add this rather ugly sed command:

      sed -i 's,--disable-pixarlog,& --disable-jbig,' libtiff/configure

   Of course, the result will be a tkimg without jbig support... but
   that's what you'd get anyway, if you built tkimg on a stock 15.0
   system.