[Zope] PIL error: decoder jpeg not available

[Lennart Regebro]

From: <dave@loewen.com>
> I'm desperately trying to get PIL going under Zope, so I can run the
> Photo and Photo Folder products.

Have you read http://www.zope.org/Members/regebro/PIL_zope/ ?

> 
> Everything seems to be working fine as long as I stick to .gif
> images-- I can create a photo folder, add photo docs, pregenerate
> thumbnails, etc.
> 
> However, it breaks when I try to use a .jpg image. When I try to
> create a photo doc with a .jpg, I get the following error:
> 
>      *  Module PIL.Image, line 255, in _getdecoder
>      IOError: decoder jpeg not available
> 
> OK, so i've searched all the lists I can find, and it seems as if i
> don't have JPEG support compiled into PIL.
> 
> If I go to /var/zope/lib/python2.1/site-packages/PIL and run "ldd
> _imaging.so", I get:
> 
>      libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
>      /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
> 
> I believe I should have a line in there like "libjpeg.so.6 =>
> /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6". But I don't. So I believe this means that I
> need to recompile the PIL libraries? I went back to my PIL /libImaging
> folder and tried manually editing the ImConfig.h file. I uncommented
> the line
> 
>      /* Define if you have the IJG jpeg library (-ljpeg).  */
>      #undef HAVE_LIBJPEG */
> 
> then re-run make, but the new "_imaging.so" still doesn't seem to be
> linked to libjpeg.so.6.
> 
> I think i'm close, but I can't quite get there. How do I recompile PIL
> with JPG support? Sorry for being an idiot here, but can someone help
> drag me the last 10 feet to victory?
> 
> --dave