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

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (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