Re: GTK Can't Find libtiff

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

JS <oghistorian yahoo com> writes:

> configure:23170: checking for TIFFReadScanline in
> -ltiff
> configure:23201: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -Wall 
> -L/usr/local/bin conftest.c -ltiff -lm  -lintl  >&5
> ld: table of contents for archive: /usr/lib/libtiff.a
> is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)

Never seen this particular error before but obviously something went
wrong when you built libtiff. Looks like you did not create a shared
library that gtk+ could link against. libtiff.a is just an object
archive for static linking. Is there a libtiff.so in the somewhere?


Sven