On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:03:55 +0100 Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 June 2017 at 11:51, Stephen Berman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  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.

I haven't actually built the Emacs package from the BLFS book, but I
regularly build Emacs from the master branch of the savannah.gnu.org git
repository under BLFS 8.0, and it supports ImageMagick-6 after the above
file manipulation.  And the ImageMagick-6 requirement in the Emacs-25.2
configure script is the same as in master, so it should work there too.
(If you don't build ImageMagick-7 and build ImageMagick-6 without the
BLFS patch, I assume it will just install Wand.pc, so then the issue for
Emacs won't arise.)

Steve Berman
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