Thanks for the info. I was going bonkers.
I'll request the Linux admin team if they can install this.
This is on my work machine where I don't have sudo access. So I need to install everything (emacs, tmux, required libs, many other things) in my $HOME.
I couldn't find giflib-devel source anywhere. Do you know how to build giflib from source that does the same thing as giflib-devel?
I don't think I can install RPM packages in my $HOME without sudo. Can I?
Thanks.
Kaushal Modi wrote:
But on RHEL 6, I need to pass the --with-gif=no option.
Yes, that's what I typically do on RHEL 6. Apparently Red Hat forgot to put giflib-devel into RHEL 6. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659854
I used "/home/kmodi/usr_local/6" as prefix when installing giflib.
Welcome to package configuration hell. Rather than fiddle with all those settings (something I've never done for RHEL 6) you may find it simpler to install a properly-configured giflib. See:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=giflib-devel
and look for "CentOS 6".