xemacs-21.5.14 build failure: configure breaks because of no libtiff.so

I am doing a build of xemacs-21.5.14 from the source tarball. (This is partly so I can belatedly follow up an earlier bug report and provide a build log for that - but I thought it best to report each build problem in order.) configure fails because 'The C compiler can no longer build working executables'. The reason for that is that configure is adding -ltiff to the compiler command line even though there is no libtiff.so in the linker's search path. configure ought to check that the library exists before it adds -ltiff. % uname -a SunOS ftidev1.london.kbcfp.com 5.8 Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R Solaris The config.log is attached. For the time being I will work around the problem by installing libtiff. -- Ed Avis <ed.avis(a)kbcfp.com&gt;