Hi,

I'm using PIL 1.1.2 happily under Windows to produce thumbnails from
.gif and .jpeg files. The final app must run under BSDI4.0. I rebuilt
PIL from sources, also built Jpeg-6b and zlib-1.1.3. Everything built
and passed tests (PIL passed up to the point where the image was
trying to be displayed -- I don't have a screen on this machine):

mook:~/src/Imaging-1.1.2/libImaging $ make check
./coretest
> >> processing lena.ppm...
> >> elapsed time: 10
> >> as far as we tested, everything seems to be ok...
xv test.ppm
xv: Can't open display
*** Error code 1 (ignored)


But when I use it, I always get an error that it couldn't decode the file:

mook:~/src/Imaging-1.1.2/Images $ python
Python 2.2 (#5, Jan 27 2002, 22:13:28) 
[GCC 2.7.2.1] on bsdos4
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >> import Image
> >> a=Image.open('lena.jpg')
> >> a.getbbox()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin> ", line 1, in ?
  File "/home/minidisc/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 514, in getbbox
    self.load()
  File "/home/minidisc/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 166, in loa
d
    raise IOError, "decoder error %d when reading image file" % e
IOError: decoder error -2 when reading image file
> >> 

Any ideas? My impression was that this should "just work", given that
it all works so nicely under windows.

The Jpeg decoder is being built in (from ImConfig.h):

/* Define if you have the IJG jpeg library (-ljpeg).  */
#define HAVE_LIBJPEG 1

GIF files seem to work okay.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

Eric Woudenberg


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