[Slackbuilds-users] Issues with tkimg

[M Wedin]

Den sön 18 aug. 2024 kl 22:09 skrev B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk>:
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> On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, M Wedin wrote:
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> > I aim to install mcu8051ide
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> > These are the packages to be installed. Dependencies are indented
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> > mcu8051ide
> >  bwidget
> >  itcl
> > !  tkimg
> >    tcllib
> >  tDOM
> >    gumbo-parser
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> > There is no libtiff on SBo. I searched and installed all of *jbig* I
> > could find. No success. Any help is appreciated.
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> I can confirm that tkimg fails to build, if jbigkit is installed. I get
> the same error you do.
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> What I couldn't figure out, from your message... you installed all
> the builds with *jbig* in the name, but why?

Because of my lack of understanding, I figured it couldn't hurt much
to add stuff.
undefined reference to `TIFFInitJBIG'

> 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:
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> $ cat /tmp/SBo/tkimg1.4/compat/libtiff/VERSION
> 3.9.4
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> 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...
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> Two suggestions:
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> 1. M Wedin, you can temporarily removepkg jbigkit, built tkimg, then
>     reinstall jbigkit afterwards if you actually need it.

That is exactly what I did, when I got it to work. Thanks to Matteo.

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