On 16 June 2017 at 11:51, Stephen Berman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Thanks for that info; it's always useful to know exactly what the issue is. You say that emacs built without error, so I'm assuming that everything works as expected. As I said, I have no experience with emacs built with ImageMagick support, so until I've built it myself I have no knowledge in that area. Richard
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