From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: How to point an emacs build to gif libs Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:26:58 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87egqqx03h.fsf@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421681245 789 80.91.229.3 (19 Jan 2015 15:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:27:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 16:27:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEEe-0003EN-9L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:27:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEEd-0004r9-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:27:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48631) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEEZ-0004pd-4m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEEU-0000Rg-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41951) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEEU-0000RI-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YDEES-0003AY-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:27:12 +0100 Original-Received: from c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([76.97.127.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:27:12 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:27:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-97-127-193.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8Rdh99olR3zLlye+wpqq/jTF7gE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181437 Archived-At: setup Solaris OS (openindiana-hipster) Trying to figure out how to tell configure where to look for gif libraries by using ./configure --help shows --libdir= so I tried using that to point /opt/csw/lib:/opt/csw/lib/amd64/ Where things like: libungif.so libgif.so.4.1.7 libgif.so and several more like those but ./configure ends with: My ./configure line: PATH=$PATH ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/src/vcs/git/test --with-x=yes --with-gif=yes --libdir=/opt/csw/lib:/opt/csw/lib/amd64 --with-imagemagick=yes --with-x-toolkit=athena (the PATH= stuff was there to cure a problem where ./configure was finding the wrong (old) verion of makeinfo... the PATH variable seemed to head it the right way /opt/csw/bin/) So with that ./configure line, it ends with: ,---- | [...] | configure: error: The following required libraries were not found: | libgif/libungif | Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing? | If you don't want to link with them give | --with-gif=no | as options to configure `---- Having emacs built with gif or not is really small potatoes, my query is more to for once and for all... learn how to tell ./configure some kinds of things.