Nix build broken with giflib workaround

[diniamo]

6a6678a broke the Nix build, of course, a revert patch is possible, but not preferred. Any idea why?

meson.build:57:9: ERROR: C shared or static library 'gif' not found

[artemsen]

Sorry, I am rather a Linux-guy than FreeBSD one =)
This was done by advice from FreeBSD maintainer.
I tried to revert this fix and build fails, so it works at least for FreeeBSD 14.1.

[diniamo]

Would it be possible to check with pkgconfig first, and use the workaround as a fallback?

[artemsen]

The problem is that giflib doesn't support pkg-config.

[diniamo]

How? It used to work before the commit, which only fixed the FreeBSD build.

[artemsen]

Perhaps it depends on giflib path. Or may be it because of this bug.
GitHub CI and freshports.org say this fix is ​​fine.
Sorry, I don't know how to make it work in FreeBSD without this patch. Do you have any ideas?

[diniamo]

Nothing other than what I've already suggested: using the workaround as a fallback.

[diniamo]

That seems to have done it, thanks! Would it be possible to make a release with this soon? The nixpkgs version is pretty outdated.

[artemsen]

I need to fix a couple of bugs. We'll be released by the end of summer.