Tommy Killander wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Got some more info to share on this topic. I tried to install the 
> kaa-base, kaa-imlib2 and kaa-metadata packages again and it seems that 
> there is some problem the build of the kaa.imlib2 module thing.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaa-imlib2-0.2.3]# python setup.py install --record 
> installed_files
> POSIX shared memory enabled
> running install
> running build
> running build_py
> running build_ext
> building 'kaa.imlib2._Imlib2module' extension
> gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/src/imlib2.o 
> build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/src/image.o 
> build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/src/font.o 
> build/temp.linux-i686-2.5/src/rawformats.o -L/usr/lib -lpng -lrt 
> -lImlib2 -lfreetype -lX11 -lXext -ldl -lm -lpython2.5  -o  
> build/lib.linux-i686-2.5/kaa/imlib2/_Imlib2module.so
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaa-imlib2-0.2.3]#
> 
> Now, what does that error message mean ?
> The linker can't find the library file "png" or does the linker think 
> that "-lpng" is a file path...

-lpng means it is looking for a file called libpng.so or libpng.a. which 
should be in /usr/lib (from -L/usr/lib).

This means that you need to install png development package. I would 
expect just about all distributions to include these libraries out of 
the box.

Duncan

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