[Xastir] New build problems

[Curt Mills]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, KD1YV wrote:

> cannot find -lz

You need "zlib" and "zlib-devel".


> 1)  Where should z be and why would it have disappeared after my
> earlier
> successful build?

Bring up YaST and you should be able to search for zlib.


> 3)  I installed ImageMagick 6.1.0-1.  Why can't the configure script
> find it?  During my frustration, I also installed ImageMagick-devel and
> ImageMagick-C++.  I hope that these would not have any ill effects.

-devel you need.  C++ you don't, but it won't hurt anything.  As
we've (I've?) said 100 times or so on this list already, ImageMagick
can be a royal pain to install, mostly because the ImageMagick
developers don't cross their t's and dot their i's appropriately.
Neither do the packagers that create debian or RPM packages out of
them.

The trick is to look at your config.log file, find the section where
it says it failed to compile a test program using ImageMagick, and
see what it is unhappy about.  Often it is yet another library that
ImageMagick needs, which didn't get put into the RPM file as a
dependency.  Complain to the package maintainers as you find each
one, and then perhaps my next version of SuSE will be bug-free.  hi
hi


> 4)  Where is the FAQ for this group/mailing list?

The FAQ file should be in your Xastir source tree.


> 5)  Is this mailing list searchable so that I could research some of
> this stuff before asking my questions here?

Try Google.  Sometimes I get lucky and find things from the list
there.

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