can you verify you do not have the X as a use flag ?
emerge -pv  media-gfx/imagemagick


On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:43 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> I have imagemagick-6.3.0.5 installed on a server running Gentoo which is
> connected by VPN to my desktop, also running Gentoo Linux.  I allow the
> X server on my desktop to accept connections from clients on the server.
> This works with no problems.  I can run xeyes on the server and the eyes
> show up on my desktop.
> 
> On the other hand, if I run display, from the ImageMagick suite to try
> to display an image file I get only the self-doc from the program.
> Debugging with '-debug all' shows the following:
> 
> 2007-03-27T11:22:25-05:00 0:01 0.020u 6.3.0 Exception display[11712]: 
> display.c/unknown/1741/Exception
>   X Window library is not available `'
> 
> The system has x11-libs/libX11-1.0.3 installed on it, and also
> xorg-x11-7.0-r1, even though it never runs an X server, only X clients
> with DISPLAY pointing to another box.
> 
> I've been running display successfully from another server, running
> Debian.  It also runs locally on my desktop with no complaints.  Does
> anyone have any idea what display on the Gentoo server box might be
> looking for, or how to provide it?
> 
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