Caffe install on ubuntu for anaconda with python 2.7 fails with libpng16.so.16 not found

Question

So I have installed anaconda with python 2.7 and installed all of the requirements for Caffe library. I ensured that opencv is installed by

import cv2

And checking that I can run couple of examples from docs.

Now I download caffe, configure makefile.config properly and run make all. I get very odd error:

make
CXX/LD -o .build_release/tools/upgrade_net_proto_text.bin
/usr/bin/ld: warning: libpng16.so.16, needed by /home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_create_read_struct@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_interlace_handling@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_IHDR@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_get_io_ptr@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_longjmp_fn@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_gray_to_rgb@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_compression_level@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_bgr@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_filter@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_rgb_to_gray@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_init_io@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_destroy_read_struct@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_swap@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_get_IHDR@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_palette_to_rgb@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_compression_strategy@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_get_tRNS@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_write_info@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_packing@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_read_fn@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_create_info_struct@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_read_end@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_read_update_info@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_write_image@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_write_end@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_expand_gray_1_2_4_to_8@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_create_write_struct@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_read_image@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_read_info@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_strip_alpha@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_write_fn@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_destroy_write_struct@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_error@PNG16_0'
/home/maxkhk/anaconda/lib/libopencv_highgui.so: undefined reference to `png_set_strip_16@PNG16_0'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:560: recipe for target '.build_release/tools/upgrade_net_proto_text.bin' failed
make: *** [.build_release/tools/upgrade_net_proto_text.bin] Error 1

What's wrong with that guy? Notice that I originally had anaconda3 and compiled caffe for it but successfully but I faced tons of issues with caffe under python3, so I had to remove it and try to set it up for anaconda with python 2.7.

And of course I have ensured that libpng16.so.16 is in anaconda:

maxkhk@maxkhk-X550DP:~/anaconda$ find -name libpng16.so.16
./pkgs/libpng-1.6.17-0/lib/libpng16.so.16
./lib/libpng16.so.16
maxkhk@maxkhk-X550DP:~/anaconda$ 

I googled the error, but haven't found anything in relation to caffe.

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem and I fixed it by adding an -rpath in my Makefile.config :

LINKFLAGS := -Wl,-rpath,$(HOME)/anaconda/lib

I think this is the correct fix because it (-rpath) tells GCC where it can find libraries (libjpeg, libpng) that other libraries (in this case opencv) depend on.