- more information on gif library versions in README and Makefile.PL

diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 3eea27e0d00aefc1d698a67a2eb7ab52fde6c9f9..7eb76464faabe5453960316aee14a696e6d5b4d5 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -883,6 +883,7 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Imager.
 - change the "double-include" protection macro that imio.h uses.
 - updated download locations for the various libraries that Imager 
   depends on.  Added some advice for cygwin.
+- more information on gif library versions in README and Makefile.PL
 
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diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 16d4ae02ea8febb2cccc7e54a17ff90c43336b1c..25c269519efe941d4f0f375069a2a3d2f596dfd0 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -153,6 +153,8 @@ bugs.  Imager can crash or display other strange behaviour after
 reading or writing gif images.  Some of the gif tests can even fail
 since they stress some parts of the buggy code.
 
+libungif 4.1.2 and later is safe.
+
 Do you want to remove gif support? [Y/n]
 EOFF
     my $resp = <STDIN>;

diff --git a/README b/README
index d25d91859418bd0608377c908477d2bc46dc76d2..0dde365467b439a18cb845b3ee928970f6e1a172 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ not libungif on RedHat then you will probably get lots of errors
 like undefined symbol: FreeSavedImages when running make test.
 Install libungif package to fix it.
 
+Stock libungif 4.1.2 or later seems to fix all of the bugs, if you
+have a problem that version of linungif (or later), let us know and
+we'll look into it.
 
 Imager needs to have a libtiff version of at least 3.5.5.  In the
 future we might consider supporting older libtiff versions.  For