Hi, Thank you very much Tim. I tried what you said and everything works now! Maybe someone could tell configure to check /usr/local/include as well as /usr/include by default? It would make gimp easier to install.... Jeff Lacy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Mooney" <mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Jeff Lacy" <jeffdl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Configuring gimp with libpng, libjpeg, ... > In regard to: [Gimp-developer] Configuring gimp with libpng, libjpeg, ...,...: > > >I am trying to install gimp on Freebsd 4.4, but I am not having much luck. > >I installed the the png, jpeg, and tiff libraries. But configure cannot > >seem to find them. png.h, jpeglib.h, and tiffio.h are all in > >/usr/local/include. I belive configure only checks /usr/include, but I > >don't know how to tell it to look there. > > The configure script is generated from a source file called `configure.in' > (or `configure.ac') by a program called autoconf. Any configure script > generated by autoconf uses a number of environment variables to control > build behavior. The primary ones you need to be concerned about are: > > CC - controls the C compiler you wish to use > CPPFLAGS - controls any flags you want passed to the C preprocessor > CFLAGS - any flags you want passed to the compiler itself. > LDFLAGS - any flags you want passed to the linker. > > Gimp doesn't use them, but there's also > > CXX - used to select the C++ compiler you wish to use > CXXFLAGS - any flags you want passed to the compiler itself. > > In your case, assuming you're using a Bourne-compatible shell (which > would include bash and even `ash') you could do > > CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' > CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' > LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib' > export CPPFLAGS CFLAGS LDFLAGS > > and then run the configure script. If you're trying to do this in a > directory where you've already tried to configure a package once, be sure > you first (before re-running configure) do > > make distclean > > or at least > > rm config.cache config.log config.status > > HTH. > > Tim > -- > Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) > Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) > North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 > >
