[Xastir] Can't find ImageMagick lib

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

{THUD!} (The sound of a hand hitting a head... repeatedly)

I knew that, at least at the visceral level.  That's how (or the campus 
RH mirror) is how I fixed the problem.

My biggest error was that I didn't document it and report same.

Thanks.
{THUD!}
gerry

Alan Crosswell wrote:

> Red Hat separates runtime libraries from developer libraries.  So bzip2 
> is installed by default which includes all the binaries but bzip2-devel 
> is not. This one includes libbz2.{a,so} and bzlib.h.  The theory is that 
> a user of a program like xastir who doesn't compile it himself shouldn't 
> need to clutter up his disk with a bunch of .a's and .h's.  All the 
> -devel packages are present on the CDs (they are actually produced from 
> the same spec file).  Usually they can be found on disk 2 or 3 which is 
> where I found it last night.  There's actually usually three RPMs built 
> from a given spec file:  runtime binaries and shared libraries,  
> developer binaries and header files, and sources.
> /a
> 
> Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> 
>> Only problem with this is I tried to reproduce your fix with WB5BBW's 
>> system last week, and it didn't work.  Still got the errors and 
>> warnings 'bout ImageMagick libs being missing.  I suspect the bz2 lib 
>> problem identified tonight was the culprit, although I'd have hoped 
>> bz2 libs were normally installed.  bzip is a favorite of most system 
>> packagers, for good reason.
>>
>> gerry
>>
>> vic wrote:
>>
>>> The problem seems to be rampant with most versions, including Mandrake..
>>> This is what worked for me
>>> Build and install the ImageMagick stuff from source RPM if at all 
>>> possible... then DELETE the xastir sources, redownload from cvs and 
>>> then compile... should work,, at least that is what it took on my 
>>> system...
>>>
>>> BTW I got the exact same warnings etc. until I did the above...
>>> Hope it works for you...73  Victor
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Jack Reilly wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to install xastir-1.1.4 using Suse 8.2. When I do 
>>>>> ./configure
>>>>> I get:
>>>>>  " configure: WARNING: *** Cannot find ImageMagick library files: 
>>>>> Building w/o ImageMagick support. ***"
>>>>>
>>>>> I have ImageMagic 5.5.5-28. The library files are there. PATH includes
>>>>> usr/lib/, usr/local/lib, and usr/X11R6/lib. I cannot find any required
>>>>> items in the README1st file that I do not have. Can someone help me on
>>>>> this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Install the imagemagick-devel RPM package as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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