Re: configure tests for graphics libraries

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I just saw a suggestion that the existence of the function
>     EGifPutExtensionLast will distinguish the newer version of libungif
>     from the problematic one, but I can't currently check that.
> 
> Can anyone else verify that?

Verified; it's true.  Version 4.1.0 doesn't have this function, while 
v4.1.0b1 does.

So we now have a reliable way of detecting the buggy ungif library, we 
just need to ask the maintainers to never remove that function from the 
library ;-)

Thanks, Dave.