This is libungif, a library for manipulating gif files in a manner compatible with libgif, the gif library authored and maintainer by Eric S. Raymond. The observant builder of this package may in fact notice that this package is mostly Eric S. Raymond's libgif with a few changes (Please see the NEWS file) Latest versions of libungif are available from: ftp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/pub/libungif/ You can see a web page with late breaking announcements at: http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif ==== Building this package should be as simple as: ./configure gmake gmake install ==== I have found that automake currently generates Makefile's containing some GNUmake specific syntax. If you cannot use GNU make for some reason and find that the generated makefile's won't work on your system, you will have to copy the Makefile.unx file to Makefile and configure the old way by following the directions in INSTALL.old. There are three Makefile.unx files for the three directories that compilation occurs in: the top dir (where the file you are reading is located) lib util I am not maintaining these Makefiles so they may be broken at present. If you want to contribute fixes to them, I'll include them in the next distribution. (But it may be easier just to install gmake on your system.) ==== This package uses autoconf, automake, and libtool to create the configure script, so if you need to edit the configure.in or change a makefile target you should read the DEVELOPER file for hints on recreating the distribution using these tools. Good luck! -Toshio Kuratomi ==== READ.ME file for giflib version 3.0: READ ME for GIFLIB For complete documentation on the package, point a web browser at doc/index.html. See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to install and test the package. GIFLIB has a home page at http://www.ccil.org/~esr/giflib. Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com. (http://www.ccil.org/~esr)