On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 19:05:03 +0100 Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14 June 2017 at 17:05, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard Melville wrote: > > 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. > > Let me point out that IM is an optional dependency of emacs. If you > don't know why you need it, then don't use it when building emacs. > > I was always a vim user, but I've been using emacs for about a year > and I really like it. I haven't used emacs with ImageMagick before, > but I'm interested to see exactly what can be done with it. I'm > installing ImageMagick-6..9.8-10 and emacs-25.2 (as in the book). > I'll probably get around to it tomorrow, if I have the time. I installed ImageMagick-6 on top of ImageMagick-7, using ImageMagick-6.9.7-8-libs_only-1.patch (from BLFS 8.0). This installs the file Wand-6.pc to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/, but Emacs built with ImageMagick looks for the file Wand.pc in that directory, and the Emacs configure script will fail without it. Copying Wand-6.pc to Wand.pc fixes this. Steve Berman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
