First, it occurred to me that I've got wxPython installed and it includes jpeg support. I don't suppose that means that wxPython has already put a libjpeg somewhere and I just need to tell PIL where it is?
I doubt it. You're probably better off building libjpeg yourself.
Presumably jibjpeg needs to be unzipped into its own directory, or configure/make etc wouldn't be able to figure out what I want to make. Presumably that happens automatically when I unzip it.
Yes.
Then after I do the configure/make/sudo make install will libjpeg automatically be in some standard place? If not, what's a good choice of standard place to put it, and how do I put it there? (If I start here then it will unzip to there, and then after I make it there it will be installed in this third place, which is where I want it.)
I think, by default, that it installs in /usr/local/lib. You can run configure --help in the libjpeg directory and it will give you a rundown of the various options, including where to install libjepg if you want a different place.
Thanks. Sorry to be so dumb - yes, it's perfectly reasonable for eff to assume that people using PIL are programmers. With a "new thing" in, say, Python I'd just try something and then figure out what to try next to make it work - I don't want to take that approach here lest I re-make part of Darwin or something. Once many years ago I learned a new thing: Attempting to run a sufficiently invalid DOS exe could cause physical damage to a hard drive... that wasn't the only thing I learned that day.
/usr/local is a good place to install stuff in a way that won't disrupt your system. OS X/Darwin puts its system stuff in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and so on.
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