On Mon, Oct 09, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
> The attached patch to the Release 2.5 version of pdflib fixes a
> problem building on SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 in which the build
> was failing saying it didn't know how to build ``-lpng''.
>
> It turns out that the included piece for the Makefile uses the
> variables PNGLIBLINK and JPEGLIBLINK in dependencies so requires
> file names here, not loader options. I put in a couple of loops
> through the l_ldflags macro to test for the libraries since on
> the 64 bit machines this may need to check multiple directories.
>
> It also required adding ``-lpng -ljpeg'' to LDFLAGS to get things
> to load properly.
>
> Looking at the pdflib.spec file in the CURRENT version of pdflib,
> it appears that it should have the same patch applied.
Ok, now fixed in CURRENT with pdflib-7.0.0-20061010 and higher. I've
just not taken over the loop as it is not required because we explicitly
depended on _OUR_ "png", "jpeg" and "zlib" and this way we know
precisely the path to the libxxx.a file. Thanks for your contribution,
Bill.
Ralf S. Engelschall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.engelschall.com
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