From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to find libgif/libungif on RHEL 6
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:04:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY0+ePKnmJsNsB_pUByqcXUr56ijtCzTdRWrR2yxMY0gXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85oah9w2sx.fsf@iznogoud.viz>
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Thanks Wolfgang!
I was able to make it work without -lgif in the LDFLAGS.
The rpms I extracted did not have libgif.a.
This is a very enlightening thread for me: Learnt about CentOS .rpm files
for RHEL, rpm2cpio, LDFLAGS vs LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Thanks to everyone for the help :).
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:36 AM Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11 2015, Kaushal Modi wrote:
>
> > The LDFLAGS did the magic, thank you!
>
> Actually,
>
> ./configure ... LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/the/lib64
> CPPFLAGS=-I/path/to/gifincludedir
>
> should be enough since configure will add -lgif to LIBS anyway (or do
> something else to that effect).
>
> > (I wonder why setting the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and $PKG_CONFIG_PATH env vars
> > did not help.)
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used at runtime by the dynamic linker ld.so(8),
> whereas LDFLAGS belongs to the GNU buildsystem, see
>
> (info "(autoconf) Preset Output Variables").
>
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH is a search path for *.pc files, which giflib doesn't
> install (as Paul already mentioned), see pkg-config(1).
>
> There are some (completely untested) variations on the theme:
>
> One could pass
>
> LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/the/lib64 -Wl,-rpath=/path/to/the/lib64"
>
> to configure and so avoid changing LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Or, if you have the static lib64/libgif.a you could link emacs to it
> instead (by simply moving away the lib64/libgif.so* you have in your
> home directory before building emacs); in this case, you could even
> completely remove the giflib stuff from your home directory after
> building emacs.
>
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-10 4:58 Unable to find libgif/libungif on RHEL 6 Kaushal Modi
2015-09-10 5:14 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-10 10:06 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-10 12:15 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-10 14:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-10 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-09-10 15:27 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-10 18:36 ` Paul Eggert
2015-09-10 21:11 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-11 2:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-09-11 12:23 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-09-11 14:04 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
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