Re: [pygame] Compiling pygame on Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric JPGE not found

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/01/12 03:42 PM, Christopher Arndt wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> today I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10 and one of the first things I
> did after the upgrade completed was to compile pygame from source for
> Python 2.7 because I need the latest pypm module code for my projects.
>
> I stumbled over one issue: even though I had all the dependencies
> installed, the configure script said "JPGEG: not found". When I looked
> into it, I found that the package "libjpeg62[-dev]" installed
> "libjpeg.so[.62]" only in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu not in /usr/lib. So I
> had to edit "Setup.in" and add "-L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu" to the "JPEG"
> line. Then configure found the library and everthing compiled without a
> hitch.
>
> Is this the best way to solve this? Can this be handled by
> config_unix.py instead? Anybody knows, why Ubuntu installs the library
> there?
>
> Chris
This explains the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu directory: 
<http://askubuntu.com/questions/52617/what-is-usr-lib-i386-linux-gnu-for>. 
Though a temporary soludtion, adding more lookup paths to config_unix.py 
would mean constant maintenance. If only there were some way to get ld 
to simply display the location of a library. And /etc/ld.so.conf now 
redirects to directory /etc/ld.so.conf.d, at least on Debian. So reading 
in paths from it would be complicated. ldconfig -NXp looks promising, 
though.

Lenard Lindstrom