Thanks for the info. I was going bonkers.

I'll request the Linux admin team if they can install this.

This is on my work machine where I don't have sudo access. So I need to
install everything (emacs, tmux, required libs, many other things) in my
$HOME.

I couldn't find giflib-devel source anywhere. Do you know how to build
giflib from source that does the same thing as giflib-devel?

I don't think I can install RPM packages in my $HOME without sudo. Can I?

Thanks.
On Sep 10, 2015 6:06 AM, "Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Kaushal Modi wrote:
>
> But on RHEL 6, I need to pass the --with-gif=no option.
>>
>
> Yes, that's what I typically do on RHEL 6.  Apparently Red Hat forgot to
> put giflib-devel into RHEL 6.  See:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659854
>
> I used "/home/kmodi/usr_local/6" as prefix when installing giflib.
>>
>
> Welcome to package configuration hell.  Rather than fiddle with all those
> settings (something I've never done for RHEL 6) you may find it simpler to
> install a properly-configured giflib.  See:
>
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=giflib-devel
>
> and look for "CentOS 6".
>