[Xastir-dev] ImageMagick causing trouble again...

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:39:27AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n7xy at clearwire.net> flavor, containing:
> I compiled Xastir 1.9.2 on OS X 10.4.10 (PPC) and am getting the correct 
> version mumber reported.  I have ImageMagick 6.3.6-4 (from macosports) 
> installed.  Maybe the later ImageMagick switched back.

I've upgraded my system recently and the new ImageMagick, which claims to
be version 6.3.6.9 (?) still screws up the VERSION macro.

I think I see a work around.  Will try to commit it if possible.

> On Nov 7, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
>> 
>> After I did the stable release yesterday I updated the machine at
>> home to 1.9.2 and found a bug.  It seems ImageMagick has
>> commandeered the "VERSION" define.  If you do Help->About it says
>> Xastir is version "6.3.5", which of course is the IM version.
>> 
>> It looks like "VERSION" is actually used in main.c and interface.c.
>> 
>> I tried briefly last night to add "VERSION" to the other defines
>> that were protected from ImageMagick at the top of main.c, and made
>> a mess of it.  I couldn't make it work.
>> 
>> We either need to protect the define in main.c (two places) and
>> interface.c (one place), or define an entirely new variable in
>> configure.ac/acinclude.m4 that is less likely to be commandeered by
>> other packages.  We also have the "PACKAGE_VERSION" define but I
>> think that may have been taken over by IM as well.
>> 
>> Can somebody help fix this?
>> 
>> --
>> Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/>     XASTIR: <www.xastir.org>
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