I don't want to hijack this thread (I will start my own thread, depending of your answer). Only one question:
***did you succeed to compile ImageMagick?*** I tried since a long while already. Fink fails with pango1, at a quite early point of the install. Then I tried with my different Perls on my Mac; the Apple Perl (if I remember well 5.12) and all Perls under Perlbrew (perl-5.16.3, perl-5.19.1) with no avail. marek On 7/9/13 9:15 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 7/9/2013 1:13 PM, Reaves, Timothy wrote: >> I went to install ImageMagick. This should be very straight forward. A >> few format libraries, and ImageMagick itself. Instead, I see this >> following ridiculousness, of 192 dependencies! This is just wrong. Yes, >> there are various add-ins that ImageMagick can use. I have to >> custom-compile ImageMagick on our production Linux machines, so I'm well >> aware of that. But this is unreasonable. > > There are 3 main things that make the imagemagick dependency chain so > large on a fresh Fink install: > > 1) IM uses librsvg2, which needs libgsf, which needs gconf2 which pulls > in several large things (like openldap24, cyrus-sasl2 and other gnome > related libraries). I don't know why libgsf needs gconf2, though. You > can contact the libgsf1.114-shlibs maintainer to find out and see if > gconf2 can be trimmed out. > 2) Packages sometimes are set to rebuild their docs, and this requires > gtk-doc, texinfo, and other doc related programs. The doc generation > system in those packages would have to be explicitly turned off in those > packages to reduce these dependencies. > 3) Different packages are installing different versions of graphics > libraries (libpng, etc). Packages are migrated towards the latest > library version whenever possible, but some packages just won't build > against the newer version (as can be seen by the presence of libpng14 in > your list). > > Finally, note that Fink/OS X is not Linux, and many libraries and tools > that exist by default on a Linux machine are not present on OS X and so > must be installed by us, thus also inflating the original dependency list. > > I've now updated the graphics library dependencies on IM to the latest. > That might get rid of 2 or 3 extra dependencies, but the rest of the > issues mentioned above will persist. > > Hanspeter > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics > Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics > Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. > Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
