Help installing PIL/Sketch

[Bernhard Herzog]

grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

> In article <zhHH5.2221$FU3.513989 at ptah.visi.com>, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> >Apparently the python-imaging RPM pointed to by the Sketch home
> >page doesn't contain the include files, so it isn't useful for
> >building Sketch.

That's true, unfortunately. I don't know about a Red Hat PIL-rpm that
includes the header files and I can't build one myself at the moment. If
someone knows such has a package or can build one for Sketch, please let
me know.

> >>>> import _imaging
> >Traceback (innermost last):
> >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> >ImportError: ./_imaging.so: undefined symbol: XCreateRegion
> 
> Copying the include files from the source distribution makes
> things work with the RPM, but I'm still curious what was wrong 
> when building PIL from sources.
> 
> The libraries used by _imaging.so are:
> $ ldd _imaging.so
>         libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x40145000)
>         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40164000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40173000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
> 
> But there are a bunch of undefined X11 symbols.  It looks to me
> like _imaging.so should depend on some X libs...

IIRC, this problem is fixed in PIL 1.1.

  Bernhard


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