Building from source with dependency on libjpeg.la on FC5

[Rex Dieter]

Christian Nolte wrote:

> Since libjpeg.la has been removed from libjpeg-devel according to the
> following bug report:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145971
> 
> Packages which need libjpeg.la cannot be built. For example JMagick
> (http://www.yeo.id.au/jmagick/) does not build from source. The error I
> get is
> 
> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libjpeg.la'
> 
> Is there some workaround using a configure option or something to get it
> built?

Most likely, there is some other bit on your system referring to the now
awol libjpeg.la.

grep libjpeg.la /usr/lib/*.la
will highlight the offender(s).  

Fix:  simply rebuild/respin the offending pkg.

-- Rex