Version 5.0.0 does not contain bin for linux anymore

[janwidmer]

We are using imagemin-gifsicle and therefore gifsicle-bin as part of our build. With the release 5.0.0, the linux bin files got removed. As consequence of that removal, our build does not work anymore on the CI Server. (The build tries to rebuild gifcicle and misses autoreconf for that..)

Was there a specific reason to update only the windows / mac versions of the bin and removing the linux ones?

Would it be possible to re-add them? There is also an open PR which wanted to update the Linux Version: https://github.com/imagemin/gifsicle-bin/pull/106

[Zwimber]

Therefore also everyone who updated @gumlet/gif-resize from 1.0.4 to 1.0.7 will get an error on Linux hosts.

[Yivan]

Hello,

Same here.

I don't want to run apt-get install dh-autoreconf to be able to build it as it install 250 megs of packages... and we use containers. It makes a too huge dependency, really.

So we tried to simply install gifsicle package from debian official repo, just a few megs, so great, but gifcicle-bin don't seems to be able to detect it and try to build it, it is a shame : (

There are two solutions:

• put again the linux bin like before
• search for a system cli gifsicle binary and use it if already here

For now, same we cannot use no more this package. Hope it could be fixed, Thanks!

[WebReflection]

This issue affects vercel / now CI too, so that I had to put it under optional dependencies that fail every single time but also I manually pre-build assets locally, before pushing, but that's not ideal.

As I am myself a Linux user, if there's anything I can do to provide Linux binaries please let me know, thanks.

[janwidmer]

mmh I was courious what the reason for the removal was but as there has not been a reaction on this issue, I am also not sure if the owner would accept a PR.. Also there has not been really a reaction on this PR https://github.com/imagemin/gifsicle-bin/pull/106..

[WebReflection]

@janwidmer do you know any valid alternative? my interest is about optimizing already available GIFs and nothing else, to be honest, but I might drop that if there's no alternative, or provide one by myself, that's going to work in common CIs too.

[lhtdesignde]

ah ya that's definitely causing the error of issue #79 . Would be great to re-add, please.

[janwidmer]

@WebReflection we ended up installing the build tools to generate the binary by ourselfs in our Gitlab CI image

[sphrases]

Same issue Gulp-image breaks too

[sghoweri]

I'm now running into this exact same issue as well (linked over from https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin-gifsicle/issues/40)

[jimblue]

Just a friendly ping... Any update about this issue ? I got the same problem on a Ubuntu Server.

[sean6bucks]

Any progress or response from Imagemin team about this? Seems there are multiple tickets in imagmin projects, but doesn't seem to be any responses about fixes, besides people finding work arounds or downgrading. https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin-gifsicle/issues/37 https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin-gifsicle/issues/32 https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin-gifsicle/issues/40 https://github.com/imagemin/imagemin-gifsicle/issues/45 Not even the minimal response that all these tickets are duplicates to the same issue

[mreinstein]

I think this is resolved via #118

[mreinstein]

we'd need a new release of course, but assuming you're talking about 64 bit x86 linux binary this should do the trick.

[janwidmer]

@mreinstein thanks for your work. As we use it as part of imagemin-gifsicle, we cannot just update to the new version 5.2.0 but need to ask for a new version of imagemin-gifsicle.. As soon as that happen, I will close this ticket