error during installation of EMBOSS on MacOSX "dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/jpeg/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib"

Question

I'm trying to install EMBOSS v6.6.0 on a MacOSX 10.12 laptop. I did the following:

./configure --prefix=/Users/pc/local/opt/emboss/v6.6.0
sudo mkdir /usr/local/emboss
sudo chown pc /usr/local/emboss
make -j 4

Then I did make install and got the following error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/jpeg/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/opt/gd/lib/libgd.3.dylib
  Reason: image not found
make[3]: *** [install-exec-hook] Abort trap: 6
make[2]: *** [install-exec-am] Error 2
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Not sure how to fix this. What should I try?

Answer 1

If you don't need the UI elements then

./configure  --without-x
make

generally makes life a lot easier on OSX.

Otherwise it looks like your installed library gd in /usr/local/opt/gd is out of sync with the jpeg library. If you ls /usr/local/opt/jpeg/lib/ I am guessing you see libjpeg.9.dylib. From this it is difficult to know exactly the next steps without knowing how you originally installed /usr/local/opt/gd. It might be as simple as (if you have homebrew) brew install gd to overwrite the 'broken' gd library. Or removing it entirely as I think it is getting in the way of the emboss included gd during compilation.