Re: Building emacs errors: libraries present

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

Tory S. Anderson writes:

> Okay; I'm making progress. I have identical problems with both 
> 24.4 and 25.0.5 build processes now. LibPNG is being found! But 
> the gif library is not. In summary, I get NO configure errors 
> (as long as I do sudo configure), but I get the following make 
> error (even with sudo make, which I know is probably a dangerous 
> command):
>
>     ./temacs: error while loading shared libraries: libgif.so.7: 
>     cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> But a find locates it just fine: 
>
>     $ sudo find / -name "libgif.so.7" /usr/local/lib/libgif.so.7
>
> Indeed, configure apparently found it, right? 
>
> Unabridged config and make outputs for those interested: 
>
> http://www.toryanderson.com/files/emacs-configure-output.txt 
> http://www.toryanderson.com/files/emacs-make-output.txt     
>
> Any ideas why it can't find libgif? 

Have you run ldconfig(8) after installing libgif?


Alexis.