Re: JPEG Loader Failed

[John Cupitt ng-london org uk]

Hi Ian, take a look at config.log and see how configure is trying to link
the jpeg test program. My guess would be that it's expecting a libjpeg.so in
/usr/lib as well, but I'm not a redhat person, so I'm probably wrong.

John

Ian Scott wrote:
> I've spent several hours trying to install  GTK+ 2.2.  I've managed to
> do some experimenting - (discovered that .pc files were being written to
> /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig instead of /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ - so I simply
> copied the relevant ones, amongst other weird issues).
> 
> My system:  Redhat 8.0
> 
> Now, I'm able to run configure for gtk+ 2.2, but I'm getting this:
> 
> checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... no
> configure: WARNING: *** JPEG loader will not be built (JPEG library not
> found) *
> **
> configure: error:
> *** Checks for JPEG loader failed. You can build without it by passing
> *** --without-libjpeg to configure but some programs using GTK+ may
> *** not work properly
> 
> But I do have the jpeg library installed:
> 
> ls -la /usr/lib
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Oct  8 19:41 libjpeg.so.62 ->
> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       137775 Jun 23  2002
> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
> 
> But for good measure, I downloaded the tar package ( pegsrc.v6b.tar.gz)
> from the ftp site, and did the usual ./configure, make, make install. 
> No error messages.  
> 
> I've even run /sbin/ldconfig a bunch of times. So, I'm stumped.  What I
> really wanted to do was take a look at the new GIMP version.  Seems like
> a lot of work to just have a peek at it though! :)
> 
> I'm not a programmer - but I HAVE been RTFM's... and even tried a bunch
> of different things, but I'm stumped.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 



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