From c8d9b4eead837ea87832c5cff0bf371f31d331b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:42:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document problems with libjpeg unavailable as a shared library. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index c3ce42da4b..2637a52a5f 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -142,6 +142,27 @@ characters, is copied and pasted into a buffer. An inactive cursor remains in an active window after the Windows Manager driven switch of the focus, until a key is pressed. +* The `configure' script doesn't find the jpeg library. + +This can happen because the linker by default only looks for shared +libraries, but jpeg distribution by default doesn't build and doesn't +install a shared version of the library, `libjpeg.so'. One system +where this is known to happen is Compaq/DEC Alpha OSF/1 v4.0, but it +probably isn't limited to that system alone. + +It is possible to build Emacs linked statically, but that makes the +binary much larger. + +If you want to avoid building a statically linked Emacs, configure the +jpeg library with the `--enable-shared' option and then rebuild +libjpeg. This produces a shared version of libjpeg, which you need to +install. Finally, rerun the Emacs configure script, which should now +find the jpeg library. + +(If you need the static version of the jpeg library as well, you can +configure libjpeg with both `--enable-static' and `--enable-shared' +options. + * Some accented ISO-8859-1 characters or umlauts are displayed as | or _. Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with -- 2.20.1