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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