[Sussex] gentoo imlib - install probs

Stephen Williams sdp.williams at btinternet.com
Mon Aug 23 15:08:22 UTC 2004


Dominic,

Take a look at forums.gentoo.org, search for "imlib won't compile".
You're likely to get a wealth of information. Currently the servers are
down for maintenance though.

Steve Williams.

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 08:30, Dominic Clay wrote:
> Hi Chaps,
> 
> Im just trying to install 'imlib-1.9.14-r1' on a clean new Gentoo box.
> During the configure process it spits out this error and then bombs...  I
> wondered if it was to do with 'giflib' but installing that made no
> difference :/  Anyone any thoughts?
> 
> ******************************************************
> <snip>
> checking whether shmctl IPC_RMID allowes subsequent attaches... yes
> checking X11/extensions/XShm.h... yes
> checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... yes
> checking for jpeglib.h... yes
> checking for TIFFReadScanline in -ltiff... yes
> checking for tiffio.h... yes
> checking for gif_lib.h... yes
> checking for DGifOpenFileName in -lungif... no
> checking for DGifOpenFileName in -lgif... no
> configure: error: *** GIF library file not found ***
> 
> !!! ERROR: media-libs/imlib-1.9.14-r1 failed.
> !!! Function econf, Line 362, Exitcode 1
> !!! econf failed
> <snip>
> ***********************************************
> 
> Cheers,
> Dominic
> 
> 
> 
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