Hi there, > > I hadn't read that, but already tried the method mentioned. > > yes, but you didn't tell us what went wrong. you'll see the poster said > he had to find a wayward library first. (libimlib1-devel). are you sure > you have all the dependencies. post your compilation error messages.
libimlib1-devel is already installed, since I made sure I installed all devlibs after my compiling nightmare days with Mandrake 9.0! :-( > compiling from a src.rpm is acheived by the methods described (rather > tersely) in man rpm, or at more length in the maximum rpm book > (http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/) It basically results in a binary rpm for > you to install, compiled on your machine with your libraries, but with > all the info to go into the rpm database, easy removal via rpm etc. The source doesn't worry me if it is tarred or RPM'd, since it should be identical. Here are the last few lines of compilation I tried just a few minutes ago. I've snipped most of the verbose because there are hundreds of warnings about deprecated or antiquated headers, undefined references, and more, ending with this... collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [iscan] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chrisw/iscan-1.5.2/frontend' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] iscan-1.5.2]# I'm still trying to trace back through the output (there are about 400 lines of it, mostly warnings) to see where it isn't linking to... Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
