Building from source with dependency on libjpeg.la on FC5

[Christian Nolte]

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Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Or more quick-n-dirty, from the offending .la files, either remove the
> reference to /usr/lib/libjpeg.la or replace it with -ljpeg
> 
> -- Rex

Thank you very much, Rex! I indeed did have a lib referring to
libjpeg.la (libtiff.la). rpm -q --whatprovides did show that it did not
belong to any package on my system, so I simply removed it. JMagick now
builds fine.

Bye
Christian

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