Solved: Re: no jpg support in xfce 3.8.18 on mandrake 8.2?

[wolfgang]

In an older episode (Wednesday 21 August 2002 23:49), wolfgang wrote:
> > i compiled and installed xfce-stable from cvs on mandrake 8.2
> > xfce is unable to use jpg files as desktop backgrounds
>
> i downloaded and installed
> xfce-3.8.14c-1mdk.i586.rpm
> and that one supports jpg as backgrounds, strange.
>
> i want 3.8.18 with taskbar tho ;)
>

solved the riddle by noticing an X error:
** WARNING **: Unable to load module: libpixbufloader-jpeg.so:
libpixbufloader-jpeg.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory
*** WARNING ***: Cannot load image file
/usr/local/share/xfce/backdrops/A-Little-Exercise.jpg

libpixbufloader-jpeg.so exists in /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/, but not in 
/usr/local/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders, where xfce apparently looks for it.
so i fixed the problem with
 ln -s /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so.1.0.0 
/usr/local/lib/gd
k-pixbuf/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so

wouldnt it be easier if ./configure would detect it there by itself?

regards,
wolfgang