I upgraded ImageMagick to 6.3.4 in the SFW gate about 6 months ago. At
the time, I had an OSR and ARC review done. The SFW build applies a
patch to the source so that we don't have to ship the libtool ".la"
files for the loadable backend modules. Buried in the code, it looks
for libtool ".la" files to find loadable modules instead of just using
the module itself. I suggested a patch that was more generic a while
back, but was politely told "no thanks", so I created a simplified patch
for Solaris. As for encumberences, I don't recall there being any with
ImageMagick. The latest GhostScript is out for Legal review and it's
taking a while, presumably due to some patent claims and a license grant
to comes with them. The other thing that was likely to be encumbered
was foo2zjs, which may implement some active patents and doesn't supply
a license to use the patents. That's why I haven't bothered to try to
include it in Solaris.
-Norm
Ghee Teo wrote:
> Hi Brian/Patrick/Laca,
>
> Before you guys get over excited and merged everything.
> I know SUNWimagick is ARCed for 6.3.4. I vaguely remember
> there may be a version is encumberd (I could have mixed up with
> ghostscript),
> I CC: Norm on this, he can calrify :)
>
> -Ghee
>
> Brian Cameron wrote:
>>
>> Patrick/Laca:
>>
>> I'm not sure it makes sense to muck with the SUNWimagick.spec file.
>> Note in spec-files-extra, there is a working spec-file called
>> SFEimagemagick for buildin 6.3.6 minor revision 9.
>>
>> I notice version 6.3.7 revision 5 is out, so it might be good to see
>> if it is easier to get this SFE version of the spec file updated.
>>
>> I think the old patch with SUNWimagick.spec is not longer needed.
>> This patch looks like it is a workaround for the fact that we
>> didn't used to have SUNWltdl on Solaris.
>>
>> Laca, would it make more sense to just remove the SUWNimagick.spec
>> from spec-files and just go with the ones in SFE?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>> The attached patch makes SUNWimagick.spec compile the 10th revision of
>>> ImageMagick 6.3.4.
>>> This patch is both intended to use a newer version of ImageMagick and
>>> if not for that, the source to revision 1 is simply not available
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> Bumping up to a > 6.3.4 version breaks Patch1. After I finished my
>>> spec bug hunting I'll do an attempt to see if I can do something about
>>> this.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Patrick Ale
>>> Email: patrick.ale at gmail.com
>>> IRC: WickedWicky
>>>
>>
>
