Steve, there is an ImageMagick-6 update pending, including security fixes. Will this satisfy your IT security department? If so, this would defer the need to solve the ImageMagick-7 link issue.
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/29326#issuecomment-3956540188 On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 11:31 AM Langer, Stephen A. (Fed) via macports-users <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi --- > > I’ve been informed by our IT security department that ImageMagick 6 (the > ImageMagick port) has dangerous flaws and I need to remove it from my > systems by the end of next week. ImageMagick 7 is ok. The problem is that > texlive indirectly depends on pstoedit and pstoedit depends on ImageMagic. > > As an experiment, I changed “ImageMagick” to “ImageMagick7” in the > pstoedit Portfile. The modified pstoedit port builds successfully and > LaTeX appears to run, but I have no faith that the change is safe. Is > there a way to test that pstoedit and texlive are actually working > correctly? Is there a better way of avoiding the ImageMagick issue? > > I can submit a patched Portfile for pstoedit that adds variants for > selecting the ImageMagick version, but I’m reluctant to do that without > knowing that the changes are correct. > > Thanks. > --- Steve >
