Branden and Christian, I guess I don't follow the finer nuance here but these are the different compile lines generated from libtool without doing an autoconf before configure...
gcc -shared IMG.lo IMG_bmp.lo IMG_gif.lo IMG_jpg.lo IMG_lbm.lo IMG_pcx.lo IMG_png.lo IMG_pnm.lo IMG_tga.lo IMG_tif.lo IMG_xcf.lo IMG_xpm.lo -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libSDL.so -lpthread -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXxf86dga -lXxf86vm -lXv /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -lpng -lz -Wl,-soname -Wl,libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 -o .libs/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.0 ...and with doing an autoconf first before configure in libsdl-image1.2... gcc -shared IMG.lo IMG_bmp.lo IMG_gif.lo IMG_jpg.lo IMG_lbm.lo IMG_pcx.lo IMG_png.lo IMG_pnm.lo IMG_tga.lo IMG_tif.lo IMG_xcf.lo IMG_xpm.lo -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXxf86dga -lXxf86vm -lXv /usr/lib/libjpeg.so -lpng -lz /usr/lib/libSDL.so -lpthread -Wl,-soname -Wl,libSDL_image-1.2.so.0 -o .libs/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.0 Does this look correct now? I am surprised as this looks to be just a simple reordering of the linkage rather than anything that invokes the xlibs-pic versions of -lXxf86dga -lXxf86vm -lXv explicitly. Guess I'll need to reread the mailing list on that issue again. In any case, the second link command generates a good copy of libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.0. Jack