28 Dec
2004
28 Dec
'04
13:28
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 14:19, Keith Powell wrote:
I have been trying to install a .tar.gz program.
Part way through "make", it stops with an error message:
<<<< large amount of make snipped >>>>
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -ljpeg <snip> I assume that I am a library missing, but have no idea which.
There is no -ljpeg on the system and Google does not give an answer.
You need the package libjpeg-devel In general, when a compiler uses -lsomething what you're looking for is a file called libsomething.a to get the compile to go through, and libsomething.so to get the program to run afterwards