Subject: Re: ImageMagick's patch-aa
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Soren Jacobsen <snj@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/06/2004 18:22:27
On 10/05 17:00, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Adam wrote:
> 
> > > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> > >
> > > Can we just remove all three lines?
> >
> > I guess we can.  This patch prevent installing/overwriting libltdl.
> 
> Okay I did this.
> 
> > > (By the way, I am testing the build of ImageMagick without any X
> > > libraries and got rid of wmf's use of libXpm.)
> >
> > Can you possibly fix that as well?
> 
> I am still testing. Does anyone know if ImageMagick really needs X?

I regularly use the display command, which needs X.

> When build with X it uses several X libraries.
> 
> But I have now built and installed it without any X.
> 
> And I can successfully "convert" too and from XBM and XPM formats without
> any X (and I don't have any libXpm).
> 
> I am not able to convert to XWD format though.
>  convert: no encode delegate for this image format `test.xwd'.
> and
>  convert: no decode delegate for this image format `test.xwd'.
> 
> Maybe this could be some build option: with or without X?
> 
> IMAGEMAGICK_USE_X11
> (Or some new bsd.options.mk setup?)
> 
> But maybe that is some other problem because
> ImageMagick-6.1.0/coders/xwd.o was built.
> 
> Anyone else have opinions on this?

I'm not really opposed to making the X stuff optional as long as it
remains on by default.