[Image-SIG] Important bug on some 64bits distributions

[Alex Clark]

On 11/16/11 8:58 AM, Maxime Haineault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been dealing with an annoying bug in PIL for almost a year, so I
> decided to report it since it seem
> pretty easy to fix and I can't understand why it hasn't been addressed yet.

Please report it here:

- https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette/issues/new


>
> First a little background on how it occurs. My system is running 64bit
> Ubuntu Desktop and the bug occurred
> on 10.10, 11.04 and 11.11. I use PIL in my Django projects and I use pip
> & virtualenv to install my python packages.
>
> On a new system installation I invariably get the same result. PIL gets
> compiled normally, but the package using it
> all breaks. A little digging shows that at compile time PIL states that
> Jpeg support is not available even if it is installed
> on the system.
>
> After a lot of trial and errors and searching in forums I found a
> workaround that works every time:
>
> $: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so /usr/lib/
> $: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib/
> $: sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/lib/
>
> I guess I don't have much explaining to do on what's going wrong at
> compile time or why this problem doesn't occur on
> 32bits systems.


You can try Pillow (PIL fork), it may be fixed there already:

- http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/1.7.5


Alex



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