[Xastir] still trying to install on Fedora 9

Eric Christensen eric at christensenplace.us
Thu May 29 11:38:24 EDT 2008


So I just found out that the Fedora 9 Xastir package DOES work. 
Something in my .xastir folder was breaking it.

Eric W4OTN



ke5c at hot.rr.com wrote:
>> Yeah, but here is the interesting part.  ImageMagick was already installed on my computer.  Not sure why it isn't working but the package maintainer is on the job.  He filed a NEEDINFO and I just sent it to him.
> 
>>> Well, there's your problem! (right?) 'XPM and/or ImageMagick support have not been compiled in." Isn't Image/GraphicsMagick required to display online maps? Also suggest they use GraphicsMagick over ImageMagick due to the historical problems with a dynamic API.
> 
> Admittedly I don't know enough to tell if this is relevant, but when I tried to compile (on Fedora 9 - arghhh) from CVS sources without ImageMagick, I kept getting an error about GraphicsMagick even though the GraphicsMagick library was in /usr/lib and /etc/ld.so.conf contained that path:
> 
> checking for GraphicsMagick-config... /usr/bin/GraphicsMagick-config 
> checking GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h usability... yes 
> checking GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h presence... yes 
> checking for GraphicsMagick/magick/api.h... yes 
> checking for WriteImage in -lGraphicsMagick... no 
> configure: WARNING: *** Cannot find GraphicsMagick library files: 
> Building w/o GraphicsMagick support. *** 
> checking for Magick-config... no 
> 
> When I yum installed ImageMagick-devel the above GraphicsMagick error went away, but I still have no online maps...  Just an FYI.
> 
> 73 -- John
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