Re: PyCairo & LibPNG issues

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:47:32PM -0500, Craig Davis wrote:
> For some 
> odd reason I can't get libpng 1.2.10 to compile on Tiger.  I checked 
> config.log & found out that the configure script for libpng is looking 
> for two header files that apparently don't exist on my 10.4.6 
> installation.  The files in question are malloc.h & ac_nonexistant.h

I do not know much about OS X, but:

The inclusion of ac_nonexistant.h is tried, as its name
suggests, to test the preprocessor behaviour for nonexistent
headers.  It is not supposed to exist -- in fact, if you had
such a header it would likely make configure fail miserably.

malloc.h is an obsolete header which is checked only for the
case the system has not standard-compliant stdlib.h -- this
should not be the case of OS X.

So neither of these `failures' causes configure to fail.  If
there is a problem, it is elsewhere.

> As if 
> all of this weren't bad enough the configure script failed to find my 
> G77 installation which is in /usr/local/lib.

You probably need to set up some paths to make it found.
The reason is usually clear from config.log here.

Yeti


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