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

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

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