[Slackbuilds-users] RFC: patch for cfitsio for some astronomy software

[King Beowulf]

On 03/03/2018 09:59 AM, Dominik Drobek wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Turns out you don't need to compile libindi to reproduce the issue. It's
> sufficient to simply attempt to compile anything with gcc using -lcfitsio.
> 
> The problem is in the way configure script in cfitsio handles
> --with-bzip2 option. It has an "optional" argument, which is supposed to
> be a path to where libbz2.so resides. Notice this snippet from
> configure.in:
> 
> # BZIP2 flags:
> if test "x$BZIP2_PATH" != x; then
>    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I${BZIP2_PATH}/include"
>    LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L${BZIP2_PATH}/lib -lbz2"
> fi
> 
> If "optional" argument to --with-bzip2 is not supplied then $BZIP2_PATH
> is empty, and -lbz2 doesn't get added to LDFLAGS. If $BZIP2_PATH is not
> empty then -lbz2 will be added to LDFLAGS. Additionally, -L option will
> be added. This will not have a correct path in Slackware64 (because it
> always ends with "/lib"), but it actually doesn't matter, since system
> libbz2.so is in the default search location.
> 
> I prefer to fix this issue with my SlackBuild by simply removing
> --with-bzip2 option from ./configure. And I will do it this way, unless
> you will tell me that you need bzip2 support in cfitsio. :)
> 
> I naively assumed that simply adding --with-bzip2 will enable this
> feature without any further problems. Sorry for the inconvenience.
> 
> Regards,
> Dominik
> 

Dominik,

So far so good.  libindi compiled OK. I'm till sifting through
dependenices for the driver script.  Once that's working I'll see if it
all works!

Thanks
Ed


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