[Xastir-Dev] Undefined references to ImageMagick 5.3.9

[Dave Burnett]

Yep, Curt.  5.4.9 linked with no complaints.  Current uptime 2 days, 6 hrs,
45 min.

Cheers,
Dave

"Curt Mills, WE7U" wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Dave Burnett wrote:
>
> > This section of maps.c is a series of if statements whose execution is
> > dependent upon the version of ImageMagick libraries, and is particularly
> > dependent on version 5.3.9.
>
> Does anyone remember:  Was that the version number that more than
> one ImageMagick release reported?
>
> We had trouble with ImageMagick at one point where they changed
> their API, but the version reported by "MagickLibVersion" stayed the
> same.  We had no way to figure out which API to use in our code
> because of this.  If you pick the wrong ImageMagick version, there's
> no way around it without hand-tweaking our code to match.  Shame on
> the ImageMagick developers for allowing this!
>
> They also keep changing their C API at will, and we keep having to
> play catch-up because of it.  As long as they tweak their reported
> version number each time they change it, at least there's a way to
> recover from it (by changing our code each time and putting #ifdef's
> everywhere).
>
> > I'm currently compiling ImageMagick 5.4.9 to see if the problem goes
> > away (since the if block is specific to  5.3.9).  Environment is Debian
> > 2.2, 2.2.15 kernel.
>
> Did that fix it?
>
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