On 16 June 2017 at 12:03, Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > Following on from your post, I did another web search and turned up this:- https://is.gd/dDtyS0 It looks like Wand.pc in ImageMagick v6 has been renamed MagickWand.pc in v7. Emacs configure script, as you say, is still looking for Wand.pc. Maybe this can produce an easy fix for using ImageMagick v7 without the BLFS ImageMagick v6 libraries package. I hope to check this out later; I was out all day yesterday. Richard
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