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Document problems with libjpeg unavailable as a shared library.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Fri, 09 Feb 2001 10:42:05 +0000
parents 32011da5632e
children 58a1ada9bf57
files etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Feb 09 10:03:42 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Feb 09 10:42:05 2001 +0000
@@ -142,6 +142,27 @@
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+* The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library.
+
+This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared
+libraries, but jpeg distribution by default doesn't build and doesn't
+install a shared version of the library, `libjpeg.so'.  One system
+where this is known to happen is Compaq/DEC Alpha OSF/1 v4.0, but it
+probably isn't limited to that system alone.
+
+It is possible to build Emacs linked statically, but that makes the
+binary much larger.
+
+If you want to avoid building a statically linked Emacs, configure the
+jpeg library with the `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild
+libjpeg.  This produces a shared version of libjpeg, which you need to
+install.  Finally, rerun the Emacs configure script, which should now
+find the jpeg library.
+
+(If you need the static version of the jpeg library as well, you can
+configure libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared'
+options.
+
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