[Xastir] radar maps

[Chris Bell]

> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:
> 
> > Imagemagick is apparently installed correctly. I'm running a CVS version
> > of ImageMagick dated 10-1-02 (5.5.1) In /var/tmp/xastir_general_map.gif
> > is the file.  I can type display and that file and the map appear
> > correct.  If I have the .geo selected, then the radar map appears when I
> > type display, and when I have tigermaps selected, the downloaded
> > tigermap looks ok when I type display.  Neither works inside Xastir.
> 
> I've had trouble with later versions of ImageMagick.  I first
> noticed this while trying to get the Cygwin instructions written.
> I had to put a very old ImageMagick/Cygwin binary onto an ftp site
> for people to snag because the single revision that they keep on the
> ImageMagick download sites would never work, no matter what new
> version they placed there.  I was hoping that it was a temporary
> problem and that they'd fix it in the release.
> 
> I'm also running a very old version here on this Linux box, which is
> the ImageMagick that came with SuSE 7.3.  Doing an RPM query, it
> looks like I'm running ImageMagick-5.3.1.
> 
> So... I'm not sure whether ImageMagick broke something along the
> way, or whether we failed to follow some critical API change in
> ImageMagick, but that's where we stand.  If anyone knows anything
> further about how to get newer ImageMagick versions to work with
> Xastir, please share it with the group.
> 

My solaris boxes have 5.3.3, 5.4.1, 5.5.3.  All three work for me.
(my linux boxes (sparc and intel) all seem to have 5.3.8).  

so much fun... :) 

Chris.