[GRASS5] PNG driver in binary release

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:29:19AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> mlennert at club.worldonline.be wrote:
[...]
> > - because it is linked to libgd1, truecolor support doesn't work ? 
> > Would it be possible to build the binary release against libgd2, or
> > would that exclude to many users (those that don't have libgd2) ?
> 
> GD 2.x is currently deemed "beta", so that probably shouldn't be the
> default. It might be worth providing a GD-2 version of the PNG driver
> separately, or even including it in the distribution in addition to
> the GD-1 version.

I'll add something to my script to separately build the PNG driver/GD-2
as a tar.gz package. But I still need an ugly hack of the Gmakefile
to make it pick up the GD-2 (I have two GD libs on my machine).
I would prefer to tell configure about it...

> A similar argument applies to supplying a PostgreSQL-enabled version
> of NVIZ.
ok, can do the same: small extra package.

Markus