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

[Miriam English <mim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

I may be misunderstanding your problem, but I had an irritating problem 
that kept coming up in my Linux (not Ubuntu) which located libraries in 
an unexpected place so that programs couldn't find them. I solved my 
problems by editing my /etc/profile (it is just an ordinary text file) 
to add the odd directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH shell variable.

Best wishes,

	- Miriam

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


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