I have not, no. One of the dependencies still checks that the compiler is
a symlink, when it is not.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Marek Stepanek <marekstepa...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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