Provide more robust way to enforce custom libvips dependency about sharp HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks for the suggestion, this is a good idea for more advanced users that are comfortable building their own custom libvips. I've added it via commit 579cf93

An alternative fail-fast technique might be to pass the --build-from-source flag and then remove the node_modules/@img directory (or somehow block it in the first place).

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I had to kill my terminal sessions, installed and removed both sharp locally and as root, then, installed it locally again using the following:

npm install sharp --build-from-source --verbose --foreground-scripts
Restarting my Terminal session and then running the above again resolved the issue. Let me know if you need any other info, or if anyone else needs assistance.

Original Below:

I think this issue is the cause of
#2518.
and
#4050

Unfortunately it did not resolve the issue of unsupported codec for heif. I can manually do it through vips copy image.heic image.jpeg.

pkg-config --modversion vips-cpp
8.16.0

which vips
/usr/local/bin/vips

/usr/local/bin/vips --vips-version
libvips 8.16.0

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@TransRapid Please see https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install#building-from-source for the prerequisite dependencies that are required to be able to build sharp from source. If you are still having problems, please open a new installation issue and answer all of the questions.

(I note you are compiling libvips from source control rather than using a published version. Please remember this is not yet released and therefore has not yet been fully tested with sharp so you may have run into a separate problem.)

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v0.33.4 now available with support for SHARP_FORCE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS.

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Thanks for the update. I found that installing a standard install, and removing, and then doing a build from source right after was a strange, but consistent workaround that solved it for me.

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@TransRapid If you are still having problems, please open a new installation issue and answer all of the questions.

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