On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:19:48PM -0600, Michael Chaney wrote (wyy sez): > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:12:08AM +1100, Rowel Atienza wrote: > > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Orlando Andico wrote: > > > > ImageMagick is good but it took me *2 weeks* to finally make a an > > error free compilation on our SunE450 (grrrrr...) . For the info of > > non-ImageMagick users, ImageMagick depends on several independent > > libraries (eg jpeg, tiff, mpeg, etc) that you have to download and install > > first before you hit the ./configure [OPTIONS] . The worst part is each > > library has its own problem of compiling too (grrrr...). I think the > > maintainer of ImageMagick should make a better autoconf/automake script. > > But in the end, it is a pretty good software not only for image > > manipulation but also for document preparation. I guess installing it in > > linux may be easier. > > I hate to say it, but FreeBSD is so far ahead in this area. I've > compiled IM from source on Linux, and it was a pain to find everything. > Under FreeBSD, just cd to the IM directory and type "make install". > It's very simple. > i think this is mainly a packaging problem and not a problem of linux itself. it is very easy to compile Imagemagik from source in RedHat, Mandrake, Debian and others if you use the SRPMs or DEBs. you can get the latest bleeding edge version by just downloading the tarball and placing in the /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE directory and tweaking the spec file.
FreeBSD can also have a had time configuring imagemagik if say you did not install all those libraries too. ImageMagik is a packager nightmare. -------------------------------------- William Emmanuel S. Yu Ateneo Cervini-Eliazo Networks (ACENT) email : william.s.yu at ieee dot org web : http://cersa.admu.edu.ph phone : 63(2)4266001-5925/5904 GPG : http://sysads.ateneo.net/wyu/wyy.pgp War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon
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