[Xastir] Can't find ImageMagick lib

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Reuven Z Gevaryahu wrote:

> I think we're dealing with problems in the distribution/packaging system
> of the distributions of the people that have these problems. Consider
> this- I use a rather-hacked-together slackware based system. I compile
> Imagemagick from source. Imagemagic can't end up depending on libraries
> that I don't have, because the configure script for Imagemagic wouldn't
> compile support for things I don't have installed.
>
> The people who are having these issues seem to be using Redhat or other
> such systems where there are seperate devel packages. Because of the
> packaging method, Redhat computes package dependencies. If
> Imagemagick-devel depends on bzip2-devel and libcms, the rpm program
> should tell you so and make you install those first. If such
> dependencies aren't computed correctly, the problem should be reported
> to Redhat.
>
> The more I consider adding this kind of thing to the docs, the more I
> think that this isn't our problem.

You're absolutely correct.  No arguments.  The problem comes in that
we'll be getting reports ad-infinitum about these sorts of things on
_our_ mailing list.  If we don't do something about it, our future
looks bleak.  ;-)

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