"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: No its not. There are simply exceptions to the rule. I would be very annoyed if my linux distributor started linking everything static. So Ghostscript does not need to be linked with libjpeg but with libadobe-jpeg-braindamage (probably conveniently named libjpeg by the Ghostscript sources.) Because previously the ghostscript came with its own libjpeg just for convenience. Probably the Ghostscript documentation was not clear enough about the change [which doesn't surprise me because Ghostscripts documentation is at the very least "incoherent"]. Jan