[Qt-interest] Qt assistant not showing gif's on unix

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Dean Brown <deanbrown at sandstorm.net> wrote:
> (Qt 4.5.1) We are using Qt assistant to show our help files, which
> include gif images. It's working OK on Windows, but on unix (BSD) the
> images are not being displayed. The main app shows gif files OK on both
> platforms. On Windows we built Qt using
>
> configure -static -fast -qt-libpng -qt-libmng -qt-libtiff -qt-libjpeg
>
> On unix we used
>
> ./configure -static -fast -qt-sql-mysql -qt-gif --no-pch
>
> Looking at the results from
>
> configure -help
>
> I did not find anything about configuring assistant.
>
> Is this a bug? or do we need to do something different?

Wild guess: maybe your BSD is building libgif without LZW compression
due to patent concerns (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enforcement )

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)