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

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:15:33AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> 
> 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.

Take a look in main.c for the comment "JMT - stupid ImageMagick" and the
fix appears clear.  Jack apparently encountered a related problem in 
ImageMagick years ago and kludged around it.  They appear to have introduced
a new issue whose fix is probably the same.

I have a few minutes to look at it and am going to try to fix it now.

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