[Xastir] Don't upgrade to ImageMagick 5.5.8

Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at tc.fluke.com
Fri Oct 3 14:44:02 EDT 2003


On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Dick C. Reichenbach wrote:

> This isn't going to surprise anyone on this list, but the latest and
> greatest from Imagemagick breaks something is Xastir.
>
> After spending a month or so unable to recompile Xastir, I've finally
> regressed back to IM 5.5.7 and everything seems back to normal.
> Developers: Don't worry, I don't plan to go back to 5.5.8, so I wouldn't
> worry about it.

Doesn't surprise me one iota.  :-(

We should work on getting GraphicsMagick support added in to our
configure scripts.  That way if we found GM we could skip the IM
stuff altogether.  GraphicsMagick project tries much harder to keep
the API stable.

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