The LDFLAGS did the magic, thank you!

Now my config.log ends with

#define EMACS_CONFIG_FEATURES "XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND
DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF
XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11"

(I wonder why setting the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH env vars
did not help.)

Here's my emacs build csh script in the case it could be helpful to someone:

#!/bin/tcsh -f
# emacs build script for non-root users (tested to work for RHEL 6)

# Usage: source mybuild.csh <VERSION or BRANCH>
# Example: source mybuild.csh emacs-24
#          source mybuild.csh master
# For RHEL 6, do "setenv MY_OSREV 6"
# ${HOME}/usr_local/${MY_OSREV} is the directory that I use as --prefix for
building libraries locally when the default library does not exist or is
older than the requirements
# I already have the env vars PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH and
INCLUDE_PATH to include the respective directories
${HOME}/usr_local/${MY_OSREV}
# Ensure that PKG_CONFIG_PATH has /usr/share/pkgconfig for xproto.pc and
related files. This is necessary for XFT and related X11 features..
otherwise the fonts will look horrible.

set emacs_gdb_build = 0

git checkout master
git fetch --all
git reset --hard $argv[1]

# If $argv[1] is master, basename $argv[1] -> master
# If $argv[1] is origin/emacs-24.5, basename $argv[1] -> emacs-24.5
if ( ${emacs_gdb_build} ) then
    setenv MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR
"${HOME}/usr_local/apps/${MY_OSREV}/emacs/`basename $argv[1]`_debug"
else
    setenv MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR
"${HOME}/usr_local/apps/${MY_OSREV}/emacs/`basename $argv[1]`"
endif
# setenv MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR
"${HOME}/usr_local/apps/${MY_OSREV}/emacs/test"
mkdir -p ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}

# Basic configure command
setenv MY_EMACS_CONFIGURE "./configure --prefix=${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}"

# Initialize the configure flag vairables
set emacs_configure_CFLAGS   = ''
set emacs_configure_CXXFLAGS = ''
set emacs_configure_CPPFLAGS = ''
set emacs_configure_LDFLAGS  = ''

set emacs_configure_CPPFLAGS = 'CPPFLAGS="'"-fgnu89-inline
-I${HOME}/usr_local/${MY_OSREV}/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include"
# Below LDFLAGS setup is required for emacs to build with the GIF feature
set emacs_configure_LDFLAGS  =
'LDFLAGS="'"-L${HOME}/usr_local/${MY_OSREV}/lib64 -lgif"

# For Debug
if ( ${emacs_gdb_build} ) then
    set emacs_configure_CFLAGS   = 'CFLAGS="'"-ggdb3 -O0"
    set emacs_configure_CXXFLAGS = 'CXXFLAGS="'"-ggdb3 -O0"
    set emacs_configure_LDFLAGS  = "${emacs_configure_LDFLAGS} -ggdb3"
endif

# Close the double quotes
if ( ! ( "${emacs_configure_CFLAGS}" == "" ) ) then
    set emacs_configure_CFLAGS = "${emacs_configure_CFLAGS}"'"'
endif
if ( ! ( "${emacs_configure_CXXFLAGS}" == "" ) ) then
    set emacs_configure_CXXFLAGS = "${emacs_configure_CXXFLAGS}"'"'
endif
if ( ! ( "${emacs_configure_CPPFLAGS}" == "" ) ) then
    set emacs_configure_CPPFLAGS = "${emacs_configure_CPPFLAGS}"'"'
endif
if ( ! ( "${emacs_configure_LDFLAGS}" == "" ) ) then
    set emacs_configure_LDFLAGS = "${emacs_configure_LDFLAGS}"'"'
endif

setenv MY_EMACS_CONFIGURE "${MY_EMACS_CONFIGURE}
${emacs_configure_CPPFLAGS} ${emacs_configure_CFLAGS}
${emacs_configure_CXXFLAGS} ${emacs_configure_LDFLAGS}"

echo ""
echo "  MY_EMACS_CONFIGURE = ${MY_EMACS_CONFIGURE}"
echo ""
echo "Waiting for 5 seconds .. Press Ctrl+C to cancel this installation."
sleep 5

\rm -f configure Makefile
make clean

if ( ! -e src/epaths.in.bkp ) then
    \cp src/epaths.in src/epaths.in.bkp
endif
\cp -f src/epaths.in.bkp src/epaths.in
perl -p -i -e 's/\/usr\/local/$ENV{"MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR"}/g' src/epaths.in

if ( ! -e GNUmakefile.bkp ) then
    \cp GNUmakefile GNUmakefile.bkp
endif
\cp -f GNUmakefile.bkp GNUmakefile
perl -p -i -e 's/\.\/configure/$ENV{"MY_EMACS_CONFIGURE"}/g' GNUmakefile

# Do NOT call autoreconf. "make bookstrap" below will call autoreconf with
# proper arguments.
# The `make bootstrap' step is required for a clean fresh install
if ( -f Makefile ) then
    make bootstrap
endif
make install

# I use the Exuberant ctags (now Universal ctags build from its github
repo). So rename the ctags binary and man that ships with emacs so that I
do not end up using the incorrect ctags.
if ( -e ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/ctags ) then
    \mv ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/ctags
${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/bin/ctags_emacs
endif
if ( -e ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz ) then
    \mv ${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/share/man/man1/ctags.1.gz
${MY_EMACS_INSTALL_DIR}/share/man/man1/ctags_emacs.1.gz
endif

# unset all internal variables
unset {emacs_configure_CFLAGS}
unset {emacs_configure_CPPFLAGS}
unset {emacs_configure_CXXFLAGS}
unset {emacs_configure_LDFLAGS}

# end



On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:11 PM Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 10 2015, Kaushal Modi wrote:
>
> > I tried setting LIBGIF env var to "-L/path/to/the/lib64 -lgif" before
> doing
> > ./configure.. but that did not help.
>
> ./configure ... LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/the/lib64 -lgif"
> CPPFLAGS=-I/path/to/gifincludedir
>
> should work, I think.
>