Re: How to make Emacs use image support libraries? [solved]

["Rodolfo Medina" <romeomedina@libero.it>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> When I installed Emacs CVS 21.3.50 on my system,
> the `$ ./configure' step ended up accompanied by the following output:
>
>   Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
>   Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   yes
>   Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  no
>   Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
>   Does Emacs use -lungif?                                 no
>   Does Emacs use -lpng?                                   no
>   Does Emacs use X toolkit scroll bars?                   no
>
>
>
> . Now, I need Emacs to use png libraried. How to do so?
> I tried with `$ ./configure --with-png' and also with
> `$ ./configure --with-png=yes', but the above output would not change.
> The same with jpeg, gif, tiff. I think all these libraries are installed
> in my system, because there are many files with such extensions and,
besides,
> I can perfectly view jpeg images.
> Any suggestion?


Jason Rumney wrote:

> Are the development packages for those libraries also installed? Emacs
> needs the header files to compile against.

Thanks to Jason and Pete who kindly replied.
I installed the packages zlib-1.2.2.tar.gz and
libpng-1.2.8-config.tar.gz and then repeated the '$ ./configure' step
with Emacs, and now there is:

	Does Emacs use -lpng?       yes

. Cheers,
Rodolfo