[Xastir] Can't find ImageMagick lib

[Jim Chandler]

I've run xastir under stock RedHat distributions since 7.1.  Only problem
I ran into was with 8.0.  Always worked right out of the box.

Jim

On Fri, 16 May 2003 12:41:48 -0400
Reuven Z Gevaryahu <gevaryah at netaxs.com> wrote:

> Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> 
> > If we could make it visible somehow, for all of the optional
> > libraries, that would make it much easier to help these people in
> > the future.  Don't know if it's easy to do this, just throwing it
> > out there.
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> --Reuven (KB3EHW)
> 
> 
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