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From: Tony Arnold <tony.arnold@man.ac.uk>
To: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu>
Cc: cygapps <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>, cygx <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [tony.arnold: ImageMagick packaging problem]
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 04:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FECA0C4.9030700@man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FEC835F.3070606@msu.edu>
Harold,
Thanks for the very quick and IMHO correct fix to this problem.
Regards,
Tony.
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> [Moving discussion to cygwin-apps]
>
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> A head's up for Harold.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>> Btw, since this package relies on XFree86, shouldn't it live in the
>> XFree86 directory.
>
>
> Err... well, it depends on X mostly like the emacs X package does... it
> links against it and one or two of the command-line apps uses it (mostly
> to display images), but the majority of the command-line apps don't
> actually display anything in X at all. So yes, it does rely on it, but
> it doesn't need a working X Server to be useful. I think its really a
> judgement call with this package as to where to put it; I put it where I
> did... if anyone feels strongly about changing that, feel free to do so,
> it will not upset me.
>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Tony Arnold <tony.arnold> -----
>>
>> From: Tony Arnold
>> Subject: ImageMagick packaging problem
>> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:29:10 +0000
>>
>> I just downloaded and installed teh ImageMagick package. It installed
>> fine, but when I tried to rung one of the command line tools such as
>> identify or convert, it complained it could not find the configuration
>> files in /usr/lib/ImageMagick.5.5.7 and on checking this directory
>> does not exist. The readme for this package indicates this directiry
>> tree should be included included in this package.
>>
>> I eventually discovered the libMagick-devel package which does include
>> the above directory path.
>>
>> It seems to me that the pathe for the config files should either be
>> included in the main package or the devel package should be a
>> dependency of the main packge.
>
>
> Yes, it had been mentioned before that these were configuration files
> that were needed at run-time by the libraries and that their location
> had been changed. However, we never fully answered our own questions
> about what to do here, so the result was that they were never moved. We
> then started looking at using the GraphicsMagick package as a
> replacement for ImageMagick, which diverted attention from this.
>
> I have moved the files to the libMagick6 package from the
> libMagick-devel package. This solves the problem in the short term; the
> long term problem of how to handle the fact that this is a versioned
> directory remains open.
>
> I will post a new version of the ImageMagick packages shortly.
>
> Harold
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2003-12-26 23:13 Christopher Faylor
2003-12-26 23:43 ` Harold L Hunt II
2003-12-27 4:52 ` Tony Arnold [this message]
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