[MINC-users] Compiling Display with netpbm

[Simon Fristed Eskildsen]

I just compiled almost all the BIC software from scratch on my laptop. 
This time upgraded to minc2.
I ran into a bit of trouble compiling the software that need to do some 
image i/o (Display, conglomerate, ray_trace). I compiled bicpl with the 
--with-image-netpbm configure option, so image i/o should work. However, 
the linker complained about undefined references to several 
ppm-functions. The gcc command simply missed -lnetpbm. So to let the 
configure script add the library to the compile commands, I added an 
AC_CHECK_LIB macro to check for netpbm in configure.in. This solved the 
problem for all three packages, and everything went smooth.
Did I miss something? I can't remember having to do this when I compiled 
with minc1.4 (and older).

Regards
Simon