[Xastir] Can't compile Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:58:19PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> 
> Apparently, there *IS* a way for a Quantum to be of type "float" if the 
> macro "UseHDRI" is defined.  
> 
> Looking into it, HDRI is "High Dynamic Range Images" 
> (http://www.imagemagick.org/script/high-dynamic-range.php)
> and if you've installed ImageMagick with that enabled, then it won't work with
> Xastir unless Xastir's use of ImageMagick is rewritten not to assume that 
> Quantum is an integer type.
> 
> Perhaps you have enabled that in your Magick build?   To see if it is,
> find the file "magick/magick-config.h" (probably in /usr/include/magick) and
> grep for UseHDRI.  On my systems I find:
> 
> /* #undef UseHDRI */
> 

ALternatively, the web site I cited above points to another way to verify 
that HDRI is enabled:

To verify HDRI is properly configured, look for "HDRI" in the version string:
-> identify -version
  Version: ImageMagick 6.3.7 11/01/07 Q16 HDRI http://www.imagemagick.org



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