FreeImage binaries

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Zachary Pincus <zachary.pincus at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks.  I think under Linux we're OK.  We just need to modify the
>> plugin to at least pick up on the default naming conventions (Debian,
>> e.g., names it libfreeimage.so.3, which we don't find).
>
>
> Thanks! If anyone can give me any guidance on the matter of locating libraries on different linux flavors, I'd be grateful. I'm unfortunately basically linux-ignorant.

I think if we look for liblibrary.so.majorversion as well as
liblibrary.so in the standard locations (/lib, /usr/lib,
/usr/local/lib, /opt/lib) we should be ok.

Cheers
Stéfan