[CF List] "Couldn't create lockfile" in FreeBSD

[David LeCount]

It works! Deleting config.cache is what got it
working. I'll have to remember that in case this
happens with other programs. Grazie moltissimo.

--- Mark Wedel <
     
     mwedel at sonic.net
     
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       The configure script should pick up all the
     
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      necessary configuration
     
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      data and generate a working Makefile.  There are
     
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      ways to hack around
     
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      this, but I would generally say that doing so
     
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      probably won't work because
     
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      you have to figure out why the configure script
     
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      itself is not
     
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      picking up the library.
     
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       A thought I just had - remove the config.cache and
     
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      re-run configure
     
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      with the --with-ldflags=-L/usr/local/lib
     
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      --with-includes=-I/usr/local/include
     
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       It is possible that the configure script read the
     
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      cache, discovered
     
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      that it had previously not found the png library,
     
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      and doesn't search
     
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      for it again.
     
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       Carefully watch the ouput of configure - in there
     
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      someplace it will
     
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      say checking for -lpng.  If that fails, something is
     
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      still not right.
     
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      Make the following program:
     
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      main()
     
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      {
     
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      }
     
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      Call it test.c
     
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      run cc test.c -L/usr/local/lib -lpng
     
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       Do you get any errrors?  Its possible you are
     
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      missing a library
     
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      that png depends on (like libz).
     
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