On 12/16/97 12:17 AM, Colin Wood at cwood@ichips.intel.com wrote:

>> I did a ./configure --help as you suggested and got a couple of good 
>> ideas.  To handle the problem with configure looking for two png files 
>> (one library; one header) I symbolically linked the header file into the 
>> library directory.  We'll see how that goes.
>
>That's probably not going to work...well, at least it shouldn't under any
>sane configuration scheme.  Libraries and include files are pretty much
>never in the same directory.  There's usually a main directory with "lib"
>and "include" subdirectories (e.g. /usr/{lib,include} or 
>/usr/local/{lib,include}).  Isn't that the case with the PNG and JPEG
>stuff?  Where did you install them?
>

The png library and include files aren't in the same directory, but 
configure for Mosaic expects them to be.  As it turned out, it couldn't 
find either of them after I set up the symbolic links.  Finally I just 
gave it the directory that I built png in, and that got me past that 
hurdle.

If you get the png stuff and do a configure, make, make install, it will 
put one file, png.h, in /usr/local/include and one file, libpng.a, in 
/usr/local/lib.

I think from here the best thing to do would be to find a pre-compiled 
binary (as has been suggested) and drop an email to the folks at NCSA to 
describe the problems with their documentation.

Cheers,

Sean.


                 T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
71410.25@compuserve.com            TSSchulze@aol.com
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...determines to remain actively seized of the matter.