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[Jani Huhtanen <address@hidden>]

On Friday 28 July 2006 17:31, Ingolf Schaefer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jani Huhtanen schrieb:
> > On Thursday 27 July 2006 21:34, David G. Wonnacott wrote:
> >> Thanks for the diagnosis and recommendation. I re-ran ./configure and
> >> looked for "jpeg", "jpg", and "image" in the output, but didn't see
> >> _any_ mention of either finding or not finding these. I'll see what
> >>
> >> jpeg libraries I can install and then re-try (or, I've attached the
> >> output of ./configure below in case anything pops out at you).
> >
> > Check below.
> >
> > *snip*
> >
> >> Here's the output of ./configure (with or without "make clean"):
>
> [..]
>
> >> ./configure: line 5266: freetype-config: command not found
> >> ./configure: line 5267: freetype-config: command not found
> >> checking ft2build.h usability... no
> >> checking ft2build.h presence... no
> >> checking for
> >> ft2build.h... no
> >
> > Here is your problem:
> >> disabling imlib2 support
> >
> > Imlib provides the jpeg reading support for TeXmacs, I believe.
>
> Nope. TeXmacs has no support for reading jpeg directly, if I understand
> the source code correctly. Instead of dealing with jpeg it uses imagemagick
> to do the magic ;-)

I stand corrected. I wonder what the imlib is used for then. Only references 
to it was in obtaining image size and drawing to drawable (IIRC).

>
> You should convince yourself, that imagemagick is installed, by checking
> the result of
>
>   >  which convert
>
> In any case you will also need ghostscript installed. Check by
>
>   > which gs
>
> If both of them are there, I cannot help  you anymore :-(
>
>

The presence of imagemagick or ghostscript does not add jpeg support in 
itself. At least not for me, that is. 

> [..]
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ingolf

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