On 14 June 2017 at 15:52, Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 June 2017 at 14:12, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 07:44:53AM -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote: >> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Richard Melville <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > I'm finding the book a little hard to follow on the emacs page. Is it >> > > saying that emacs-25.2 doesn't support ImageMagick-7.0.4-8 but does >> support >> > > ImageMagick-6.9.7-8? I don't have ImageMagick installed at all at >> present, >> > > so I'm assuming that if I install the full (but older) >> ImageMagick-6.9.7-8, >> > > then I'll be able to build emacs-25.2 against it in the normal >> fashion. Is >> > > that correct? I'm assuming that there are no known security issues >> > > associated with ImageMagick-6.9.7-8. >> > > >> > > Richard >> > > >> > > -- >> > > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support >> > > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >> > > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >> > > >> > > >> > There are always known security issues with ImageMagick, but it releases >> > far too often for us to keep track of. If we were to update it more, we >> > probably would need an editor dedicated just to ImageMagick updates. >> >> And for emacs, I don't think we've had an editor who regularly uses >> it for many years. >> > OK, thanks for your help you two. What I really needed was an elucidation > of this paragraph:- > > IMAGEMAGICK_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ImageMagick-6 > IMAGEMAGICK_LIBS="-lMagickCore-6.Q16HDRI > -lMagick++-6.Q16HDRI -lMagickWand-6.Q16HDRI" : use these when you invoke > configure if you have installed ImageMagick-6.9.7-8 libraries > <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/imagemagick6.html> > and wish to link to them (the normal unversioned pkgconfig files collide > with ImageMagick-7.0.4-8 > <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/imagemagick.html> > which this package cannot use). > > Does it mean (as I think it does) that emacs-25.2 will build against > ImageMagick-6.9.7-8 but not against ImageMagick-7.0.4-8? > > Thanks for your help. > So as not to waste anybody's time, I would just like to report that a web search finally answered my question. Indeed, my understanding was correct: the latest emacs (v25.2) supports ImageMagick v6 but not v7. Thanks for your help anyway. Richard
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