thank you. very fast and constructive. one query: IM 5.4.4-1 is described by fink as unstable. the stable version is 5.4.1-3, but perhaps I'll solve my problem and stop pestering people by using the later one.
best will On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 05:42 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > (Not trimming your message, as I'm cc'ing it & want to preserve context) > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, william ross wrote: > >> after a few false starts, i've got imagemagick working, or rather fink >> has. >> i was initially reluctant to install all the bits of X11 that it >> insists >> on, but while i succeeded in installing imagemagick from source, i >> could >> never get it to link to fink's libjpeg. so i've stopped fighting it and >> now it's working perfectly, from the command line at least. >> >> problem is, the version of PerlMagick i installed before is more up to >> date than Fink's imagemagick, and seems to be upset. IM is finally >> working on jpegs, but i can't get at it with perl any more :( >> >> please could someone let me know which version of perlmagick is going >> to >> work well with fink's imagemagick 5.4.1-3, and where i could get it? >> the >> main IM sources seem not to go back that far. >> >> and while i'm here, is there anything else i should remove of the >> previous installation, in addition to the seven or so command line >> tools >> like mogrify? >> >> thanks >> >> will >> >> ps. & thanks especially to randal for the Makefile changes found buried >> in the archive. > > One good thing to do is look up the package maintainer, and make sure to > include him or her on any messages regarding the package: > > % fink info imagemagick > Information about 940 packages read in 13 seconds. > pkg imagemagick version ### > pkg imagemagick version 5.4.4-1 > > imagemagick-5.4.4-1: tools and libs to read, write, and manipulate > images in many formats. > ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries to read, > write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 68 major > formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, > PhotoCD, and GIF. With ImageMagick you can create images > dynamically, > making it suitable for Web applications. You can also resize, > rotate, > sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save > your completed working the same or differing image format. > . > Web site: http://www.imagemagick.org/ > . > Porting Notes: > Patch to allow detection of libxml2, includes proper c++ linker > options. > . > Maintainer: Jeffrey Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have included Jeffrey on this mail. He might be able to answer some of > your questions... > > > > -- > Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc >
