Re: Installing GNUstep-base on OS X 10.3.9

[Fred Kiefer]

bdpierce3@bdpierce.com wrote:
> Hello everyone!!
> 
> I've been working for 2 months trying to get GNUstep installed on an Indigo
> iBook running OS X 10.3.9
> 
> I have gcc 3.3.5 installed, gnustep-make, gnustep-base, and a good majority
> of the dependencies either from source or fink.
> 
> By now it seems that I've got the congifure scripts recognizing both
> libraries and includes for libffi, libjpeg, and libtiff, with this one
> exception...the gnustep-gui configure is getting hung with the following
> error:
> 
>     - - -
>     checking for jpeg_destroy_decompress in -ljpeg... yes
>     checking for main in -lz... yes
>     checking tiffio.h usability... yes
>     checking tiffio.h presence... yes
>     checking for tiffio.h... yes
>     checking for TIFFReadScanline in -ltiff... no
>     configure: WARNING: Cannot find libtiff header and/or library
>     * The GUI library reqiures the TIFF library
>     * Use --with-tiff-library to specify the tiff library
>     * directory if it is not in the usual place(s)
>     * You may also have to specify --with-jpeg-library if the jpeg
>     * library is needed by tiff,
>     configure: error: gnustep-gui will not compile without tiff
> 
> 
> "grep TIFFReadScanLine *" shows  tiffio.h contains the following definition
>     extern  int TIFFReadScanline(TIFF*, tdata_t, uint32, tsample_t);
> and that almost all of the libraries have some reference to
> "TIFFReadScanLine"
> 
You will have to look into the config.log file to see the exact cause of
the problem. If not, you will have to extract the test out of configure
and run that manually to find the cause.

Fred