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

[torys.anderson@gmail.com (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: 
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$ 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
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