imagemagick again

[william ross]

has anyone had any success installing perlmagick on panther?

I'm using the fink-and-make method, which has always worked for me  
before and is succinctly described by Randal in  
http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.macosx/3812

fink on 10.3 is in some flux at the moment and they don't recommend  
installing from source 'for the next few weeks', but that's what you  
have to do in order to get a version of perlmagick which matches the  
version of imagemagick you have just installed, so that's what i did,  
and it seems to have compiled and installed without any bother. the  
command-line tools work, and the libraries all appear to have ended up  
where they should.

i then go into the perlmagick subdirectory, amend the library and  
include locations as usual and try to make it. That appears to work  
too: there are no warnings or complaints from running either the  
makefile or make. however, on make test (or installing and trying to  
use the module), I get a flood of errors like this:

/sw/temp/ImageMagick-5.5.1/PerlMagick/blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/ 
Magick.bundle undefined reference to _xmlSwitchEncoding expected to be  
defined in a dynamic image

which sounds like the old dyld in new clothes? Or maybe a compiler  
mismatch? curses. I'm using the system 5.8.1rc3 that ships with  
panther, and fink 0.6.1, both of which expect to use gcc3.3, I believe.  
fink is selfupdating again at the moment, but that will take a while  
(all i can get here is 28.8) so I thought I'd enquire. any advice would  
be most welcome.

thanks

will