[Xastir] OpenSUSE-10.3: Latest GraphicsMagick is broken

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

Curt,

Check Freshmeat. There is another package out there that is competing 
with the Image/GraphicsMagick game.

It is called "ExactImage". You may want to look into it in your spare 
time ;-)

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


Curt, WE7U wrote:
> I've been using GM in OpenSuSE-10.3, but the latest online update I
> got from OpenSuSE broke things.  I went back to using ImageMagick.
>
> The symptom:  Black images for any map in Xastir which uses the
> GraphicsMagick library for display.
>
> The cause:  Compiling GM with the default QuantumDepth of 8 instead
> of 16.
>
> If anyone wants to ask SuSE nicely to fix it, ask them to add
>
>     "--with-quantum-depth=16"
>
> to the ./configure line in their GraphicsMagick RPM build scripts
> and then re-release these RPM's:
>
>     libGraphicsMagick1-1.1.8-20.2
>     GraphicsMagick-1.1.8-20.2
>     GraphicsMagick-devel-1.1.8-20.2
>     libGraphicsMagick++-devel-1.1.8-20.2
>     libGraphicsMagick++1-1.1.8-20.2
>
>