Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

[Tory S. Anderson]

I finally got the point where ./configure runs successfully for the 24.4 source (I'm still not there for the 25 source); but it fails when I attempt to "make". What is the meaning of this ld error? What can I do? 

Here's the ending of the make: 
==============================
$ make
# ... # many lines...
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/torys/workspace/emacs-24.4/src'
gcc -std=gnu99 -Demacs  -I. -I. -I../lib -I./../lib   -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libdrm -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include  -I/usr/include/freetype2   -I/usr/include/alsa        -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include  -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include  -I/usr/include/freetype2  -I/usr/include/freetype2    -MMD -MF deps/.d -MP  -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include    -g3 -O2  -Wl,-znocombreloc   \
  -o temacs  vm-limit.o dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o xmenu.o window.o charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o chartab.o bidi.o cm.o term.o terminal.o xfaces.o xterm.o xfns.o xselect.o xrdb.o xsmfns.o xsettings.o gtkutil.o emacsgtkfixed.o  emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o buffer.o filelock.o insdel.o marker.o minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o cmds.o casetab.o casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o undo.o alloc.o data.o doc.o editfns.o callint.o eval.o floatfns.o fns.o font.o print.o lread.o syntax.o unexelf.o bytecode.o process.o gnutls.o callproc.o region-cache.o sound.o atimer.o doprnt.o intervals.o textprop.o composite.o xml.o gfilenotify.o profiler.o decompress.o     xfont.o ftfont.o xftfont.o ftxfont.o  fontset.o fringe.o image.o xgselect.o  terminfo.o lastfile.o      ../lib/libgnu.a       -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng15 -lz -lm -lgif -lXpm -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0 -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -lX11 -lXrender -lXft  -lasound        -lrt    -lXrandr  -lXinerama      -ltinfo  -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0  -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -lfreetype  -lfontconfig -lfreetype     -lpthread  -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0  -lm -lz
/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [temacs] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/torys/workspace/emacs-24.4/src'
make: *** [src] Error 2
$

Re: Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 12:28:18 -0500
> 
> What is the meaning of this ld error?

You don't have a required library, libpng15.so, installed.

> What can I do? 

Install it.

Re: Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

[Sven Joachim]

On 2015-02-05 18:28 +0100, Tory S. Anderson wrote:

> I finally got the point where ./configure runs successfully for the
> 24.4 source (I'm still not there for the 25 source); but it fails when
> I attempt to "make". What is the meaning of this ld error? What can I
> do?
>
> Here's the ending of the make: 
> ==============================
> $ make
> # ... # many lines...
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/torys/workspace/emacs-24.4/src'
> gcc -std=gnu99 -Demacs -I. -I. -I../lib -I./../lib -pthread
> -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0
> -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/
> -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz
> -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo
> -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libdrm
> -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
> -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/include/alsa -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
> -I/usr/include/freetype2 -MMD -MF deps/.d -MP -pthread
> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -g3 -O2
> -Wl,-znocombreloc \
>   -o temacs vm-limit.o dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o
> xmenu.o window.o charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o
> chartab.o bidi.o cm.o term.o terminal.o xfaces.o xterm.o xfns.o
> xselect.o xrdb.o xsmfns.o xsettings.o gtkutil.o emacsgtkfixed.o
> emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o buffer.o filelock.o
> insdel.o marker.o minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o cmds.o casetab.o
> casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o undo.o alloc.o data.o doc.o
> editfns.o callint.o eval.o floatfns.o fns.o font.o print.o lread.o
> syntax.o unexelf.o bytecode.o process.o gnutls.o callproc.o
> region-cache.o sound.o atimer.o doprnt.o intervals.o textprop.o
> composite.o xml.o gfilenotify.o profiler.o decompress.o xfont.o
> ftfont.o xftfont.o ftxfont.o fontset.o fringe.o image.o xgselect.o
> terminfo.o lastfile.o ../lib/libgnu.a -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng15 -lz -lm
> -lgif -lXpm -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0
> -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
> -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lXrender -lXft -lasound -lrt -lXrandr -lXinerama
> -ltinfo -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
> -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpthread -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
> -lglib-2.0 -lm -lz
> /bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15

Looks like your libpng installation is messed up.  The include
directories indicate you have libpng 1.6 but the linker tries to link
with libpng15.so which would come from libpng 1.5.

Which distribution is that, and what versions of libpng do you have
installed?

Cheers,
       Sven

Re: Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

[Tory S. Anderson]

I installed an updated libpng today: libpng-1.6.6-3.fc20.x86_64.rpm

The emacs distribution is 24.4 from http://mirror.thecodefactory.org/gnu/emacs/

I'm on Fedora 20 64-bit. 

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> On 2015-02-05 18:28 +0100, Tory S. Anderson wrote:
>
>> I finally got the point where ./configure runs successfully for the
>> 24.4 source (I'm still not there for the 25 source); but it fails when
>> I attempt to "make". What is the meaning of this ld error? What can I
>> do?
>>
>> Here's the ending of the make: 
>> ==============================
>> $ make
>> # ... # many lines...
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/torys/workspace/emacs-24.4/src'
>> gcc -std=gnu99 -Demacs -I. -I. -I../lib -I./../lib -pthread
>> -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0
>> -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/
>> -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz
>> -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo
>> -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libdrm
>> -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
>> -I/usr/include/libpng16 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
>> -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
>> -I/usr/include/alsa -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
>> -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
>> -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/freetype2
>> -I/usr/include/freetype2 -MMD -MF deps/.d -MP -pthread
>> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -g3 -O2
>> -Wl,-znocombreloc \
>>   -o temacs vm-limit.o dispnew.o frame.o scroll.o xdisp.o menu.o
>> xmenu.o window.o charset.o coding.o category.o ccl.o character.o
>> chartab.o bidi.o cm.o term.o terminal.o xfaces.o xterm.o xfns.o
>> xselect.o xrdb.o xsmfns.o xsettings.o gtkutil.o emacsgtkfixed.o
>> emacs.o keyboard.o macros.o keymap.o sysdep.o buffer.o filelock.o
>> insdel.o marker.o minibuf.o fileio.o dired.o cmds.o casetab.o
>> casefiddle.o indent.o search.o regex.o undo.o alloc.o data.o doc.o
>> editfns.o callint.o eval.o floatfns.o fns.o font.o print.o lread.o
>> syntax.o unexelf.o bytecode.o process.o gnutls.o callproc.o
>> region-cache.o sound.o atimer.o doprnt.o intervals.o textprop.o
>> composite.o xml.o gfilenotify.o profiler.o decompress.o xfont.o
>> ftfont.o xftfont.o ftxfont.o fontset.o fringe.o image.o xgselect.o
>> terminfo.o lastfile.o ../lib/libgnu.a -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng15 -lz -lm
>> -lgif -lXpm -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0
>> -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
>> -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lXrender -lXft -lasound -lrt -lXrandr -lXinerama
>> -ltinfo -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>> -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpthread -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
>> -lglib-2.0 -lm -lz
>> /bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15
>
> Looks like your libpng installation is messed up.  The include
> directories indicate you have libpng 1.6 but the linker tries to link
> with libpng15.so which would come from libpng 1.5.
>
> Which distribution is that, and what versions of libpng do you have
> installed?
>
> Cheers,
>        Sven

Re: Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:38:45 +0100
> 
> > terminfo.o lastfile.o ../lib/libgnu.a -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng15 -lz -lm
> > -lgif -lXpm -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0
> > -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
> > -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lXrender -lXft -lasound -lrt -lXrandr -lXinerama
> > -ltinfo -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
> > -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpthread -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
> > -lglib-2.0 -lm -lz
> > /bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15
> 
> Looks like your libpng installation is messed up.  The include
> directories indicate you have libpng 1.6 but the linker tries to link
> with libpng15.so which would come from libpng 1.5.

It could be that one of the other libraries the OP is linking against
requires 1.5.

Re: Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

[Tory S. Anderson]

However, I do have a libpng15 library installed on the machine (it's been there all along). Do I need to add another link to it somewhere? 

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
>> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:38:45 +0100
>> 
>> > terminfo.o lastfile.o ../lib/libgnu.a -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng15 -lz -lm
>> > -lgif -lXpm -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0
>> > -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
>> > -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lXrender -lXft -lasound -lrt -lXrandr -lXinerama
>> > -ltinfo -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>> > -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpthread -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
>> > -lglib-2.0 -lm -lz
>> > /bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15
>> 
>> Looks like your libpng installation is messed up.  The include
>> directories indicate you have libpng 1.6 but the linker tries to link
>> with libpng15.so which would come from libpng 1.5.
>
> It could be that one of the other libraries the OP is linking against
> requires 1.5.

Re: Failed to build emacs 24.4 source: /bin/ld error

[Sven Joachim]

On 2015-02-05 19:06 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
>> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:38:45 +0100
>> 
>> > terminfo.o lastfile.o ../lib/libgnu.a -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng15 -lz -lm
>> > -lgif -lXpm -lgtk-3 -lgdk-3 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -latk-1.0
>> > -lcairo-gobject -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
>> > -lglib-2.0 -lX11 -lXrender -lXft -lasound -lrt -lXrandr -lXinerama
>> > -ltinfo -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0
>> > -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lfreetype -lpthread -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0
>> > -lglib-2.0 -lm -lz
>> > /bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15
>> 
>> Looks like your libpng installation is messed up.  The include
>> directories indicate you have libpng 1.6 but the linker tries to link
>> with libpng15.so which would come from libpng 1.5.
>
> It could be that one of the other libraries the OP is linking against
> requires 1.5.

That's certainly possible, but then again there is no -lpng16 at all in
his command line.  I guess we need to see the whole config.log.

Cheers,
       Sven