Re: AAARRGHH...this is odd.

[Nate Riffe <inkblot goose inkblot ml org>]

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

>Well, sheesh. I could compile CVS gnome fine for weeks, and now I can't. I
>think CVS imlib is broken. I can't link any gnome program without
>something like this:
>
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to
>`TIFFDefaultStripSize'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `TIFFReadRGBAImage'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `_TIFFmalloc'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `TIFFWriteScanline'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `_TIFFfree'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `TIFFSetField'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `TIFFScanlineSize'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `TIFFClose'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `TIFFOpen'
>/usr/local/lib/libgdk_imlib.so: undefined reference to `TIFFGetField'
>
>And yes, I have libtiff and all that...this just started today.
>

This is a problem with the 'configure' script (run by autogen.sh) not
finding your libtiff.  The reason it doesn't think you've got a libtiff is
cause the test program that configure uses to check for it fails and
configure doesn't look any further into the matter.  I had this problem
and solved it by reinstalling libtiff (I also had problems with libpng and
did the same for it).

The symptoms you're seeing come from the fact that whatever you're trying
to compile uses imlib, which in turn uses libtiff.  The thing you're
trying to compile needs to have libtiff linked in (-ltiff argument to gcc)
because imlib uses it, but doesn't link it in because configure didn't
find it.

-Nate

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