[Xastir] The problem...again (Mandrake/ImageMagick)

[John L Place]

As per a previous post:
This is what I did.

9.1 automatically installs the latest ImageMagick-5.5.4.7 which under 
RPMFIND is labeled Mandrake cooker, so I removed it and installed the 
5.4.83 and everything is up and running.





Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

>On 29 Apr 2003, Chris Williamson wrote:
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>>I tried compiling ImageMagick 5.5.6 from source and it had no effect.
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>>I am using Mandrake 9.1.
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>Any Mandrake 9.1 users that can help Chris with this ImageMagick
>issue?
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>Chris, the ImageMagick libraries have been a bit of a problem for us in several ways:
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>1) They like to change the API (applications programming interface)
>without notice, which breaks our ability to use it.
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>2) They use this whacko "Magick-config" script which is supposed to
>give us the flags we need to use while compiling and linking.  Often
>it gets things wrong, but that's currently the only way to know how
>it is compiled.
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>3) Some versions of ImageMagick don't appear to link properly to
>programs.  I've seen this mostly with Cygwin lately, and had to go
>back to a much earlier ImageMagick to make things work.
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>4) There's been a real unwillingness on the part of their project
>team (well, one in particular) to make changes to fix these issues.
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>5) Sometimes OS distributions install broken ImageMagick
>implementations or forget to include the development files need to
>compile programs against it.
>
>That's a quick rundown on the issues.  I'm hoping the GraphicsMagick
>project takes off, as one of their goals is a stable API.  Most of
>the people on the GraphicsMagick project were developers on
>ImageMagick, but they're forking the code in order to use a
>different development/release strategy.  If it works out well, we'll
>add support for GM as well as IM, so either will work, but prefer GM
>if both are available.
>
>I know that doesn't help you directly, but at least you know what
>you're getting into now.
>
>At times in the past I've had to snag earlier or later versions of
>ImageMagick from the SuSE site (I run SuSE linux mostly) because the
>version on the CD's was broken in some manner.  You might check for
>slightly older or slightly newer IM files on the Mandrake site,
>sometimes they're in contrib or update directories, or try
>rpmfind.net (if you've already tried this, I apologize.  I can't
>keep track anymore of all the email).
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John L. Place
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