[Digikam-devel] new requirement libjpeg.la?

[Gerhard Kulzer]

Am Sunday 11 February 2007 schrieb Klaus Weidenbach:
> Hello,
>
> > > Slackware 11.0 includes the package libjpeg-6b-i386-4 but it does not
> > > contain any libjpeg.la file. Is this file required now, because I had
> > > no problems compiling older versions of digikam.
> >
> > apt-file search libjpeg.la
> > libjpeg62-dev: usr/lib/libjpeg.la
>
> Yes, I thought it should be in this package. But it is not included in the
> Slackware libjpeg package. Slackware does not know such -devel packages.
> Everything is included in just one package, so I cannot have forgotten to
> install a devel package like in other distros.
>
> I have complied digikam many times before, but it never failed because of
> this file. So I was just wondering.
>
>
> Regards,
> Klaus
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Well, # ldd /usr/bin/digikam|grep libjpeg
        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 

So I guess the .la file is needed for compilation. I don't know for sure, but 
it would surprise me if this was a new dependency, it's such an essential 
library.

Gerhard


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