On 16 June 2017 at 12:44, Stephen Berman <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.)
>

Yes, that was my original thought.  I've just read the complete thread that
I posted (always a good idea), and it seems that although it is possible to
build the latest emacs with a patched ImageMagick-7 there are imaging
issues when running emacs.  So for now I'll stick with ImageMagick-6.

Thanks for your help.

Richard
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