Very Computer

I'm having trouble compiling Gimp 0.99.8, just wondering if anyone had
run into a problem similar to this.  I've never compiled Gimp before,
and think I am missing some libraries or have some that are out of
date.  If someone could let me know which ones I need I'd really
appreciate it.  Thank you.

Here's what I get:

Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/archive/gimp-0.99.8/plug-ins/dgimp'
Making all in script-fu
make[3]: Entering directory `/archive/gimp-0.99.8/plug-ins/script-fu'
Making all in scripts
make[4]: Entering directory
`/archive/gimp-0.99.8/plug-ins/script-fu/scripts'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/archive/gimp-0.99.8/plug-ins/script-fu/scripts'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/archive/gimp-0.99.8/plug-ins/script-fu'
../libtool --mode=link gcc  -o jpeg  jpeg.o -L/usr/local/lib
../libgimp/libgimp.la ../gtk+/gtk/libgtk.la ../gtk+/gdk/libgdk.la
../gtk+/glib/libglib.la -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11  -ljpeg -lc -lm
gcc -o .libs/jpeg jpeg.o -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
../libgimp/.libs/libgimp.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
../gtk+/gtk/.libs/libgtk.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
../gtk+/gdk/.libs/libgdk.so -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
../gtk+/glib/.libs/libglib.so -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXext -lX11 -ljpeg -lc
-lm
jpeg.o: In function `load_image':
jpeg.o(.text+0x2b8): undefined reference to `jpeg_std_error'
jpeg.o(.text+0x356): undefined reference to `jpeg_destroy_decompress'
jpeg.o(.text+0x39a): undefined reference to `jpeg_create_decompress'
jpeg.o(.text+0x3a7): undefined reference to `jpeg_stdio_src'
jpeg.o(.text+0x3af): undefined reference to `jpeg_read_header'
jpeg.o(.text+0x3b5): undefined reference to `jpeg_start_decompress'
jpeg.o(.text+0x569): undefined reference to `jpeg_read_scanlines'
jpeg.o(.text+0x5ee): undefined reference to `jpeg_finish_decompress'
jpeg.o(.text+0x5f4): undefined reference to `jpeg_destroy_decompress'
jpeg.o: In function `save_image':
jpeg.o(.text+0x6d5): undefined reference to `jpeg_std_error'
jpeg.o(.text+0x712): undefined reference to `jpeg_destroy_compress'
jpeg.o(.text+0x750): undefined reference to `jpeg_create_compress'
jpeg.o(.text+0x795): undefined reference to `jpeg_stdio_dest'
jpeg.o(.text+0x846): undefined reference to `jpeg_set_defaults'
jpeg.o(.text+0x88f): undefined reference to `jpeg_set_quality'
jpeg.o(.text+0x8c9): undefined reference to `jpeg_start_compress'
jpeg.o(.text+0x9f0): undefined reference to `jpeg_write_scanlines'
jpeg.o(.text+0xa54): undefined reference to `jpeg_finish_compress'
jpeg.o(.text+0xa66): undefined reference to `jpeg_destroy_compress'
make[2]: *** [jpeg] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/archive/gimp-0.99.8/plug-ins'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/archive/gimp-0.99.8'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
mtb:/archive/gimp-0.99.8#

Regards,
Wolfram.

At a guess, you're trying to link a new libjpeg-using program
against an old (pre-v5) version of libjpeg.

Linux is particularly susceptible to this sort of problem,
because (a) a lot of Linux distributions have shipped with
a v4-vintage libjpeg in /usr/lib; (b) Linux's brain-damaged
excuse for a linker looks first for libraries in /usr/lib,
*even if you tell it to look somewhere else with a -L switch*.
So it's very easy to compile against one version of libjpeg
and link against another.

Instead of -L/some/path -ljpeg, try using /exact/path/to/libjpeg.a,
naming the libjpeg that gimp ships with.

                        regards, tom lane
                        organizer, Independent JPEG Group

The symptoms the previous poster complained of matched this problem
*exactly*.  Perhaps he wouldn't be seeing it on an up-to-date Linux
installation, but...

                        regards, tom lane
                        organizer, Independent JPEG Group

Quote:> Perhaps it's been fixed; that'd be good news if so.  It was a serious
> problem a year or so ago.  I verified it personally on a Linux box at

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