Allow using a system-installed giflib

[Brad Wetmore]

On 4/10/2013 1:19 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 23:11, Omair Majid wrote:
>> :
>> I would like to avoid this in the future; any tips on how to run the old
>> build? I couldn't get it to work last I tried (the error messages were
>> redirecting me to the new build).
> I see Brad's reply but I think what you are looking for is actually:
>
> make NEWBUILD=false
>
> It's not clear how long the old build will remain on life support.
> Hopefully the last few people that are still using the old build will
> migrate soon so that we don't have to continue to keep it working.

Agreed, but CPU and JDK8 work have taken priority.

Brad