1. Installed Fink.
2. Installed Imagemagick via Fink.
3. Installed a whole new Perl, since Perlmagick seemed to require a newer version than Apple provided.
4. Downloaded Imagemagick source just to get Perlmagick, then installed Perlmagick from source.
I'm afraid I didn't take notes on all the minor stumbling blocks I encountered along the way, or I'd post more detailed instructions to save others the headaches. I do remember that it took me a very long time to get PerlMagick to build without errors. There was something about editing a makefile, which I first did incorrectly, then fixed it but it kept using the old renamed version until I moved that to a different directory. Or something. Now it all works, but I dread the next time I have to touch anything.
Of course, there may have been an easier way that I didn't discover. Maybe you can install Perlmagick via Fink, though when I checked it was labeled unstable, and only available from source.
So I offer my sympathy to others who are going through this ordeal, and I beg the experts to come up with a better method, or at least better instructions.
Thanks for listening,
Dan
On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Apr 27, 2004, at 3:45 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
But still, think about it: do we need to make one of these refinements
to the basic design of the wheel every time we want to take a car from
one state to another, or *gasp* drive to another country? Of course not.
Oh, I agree for the most part.
The original poster, though, asked a question that (as far as I know) Fink can't answer. He already has ImageMagick and a given set of libraries, and he wants to install PerlMagick to use those. I can think of a couple ways that one *might* be able to convince Fink to install it that way - but neither of them is easy.
And yet here we are tinkering over building software when perfectly good
package management software will not only do this for you on demand, but
they'll even provide you with pre-made versions for your platform.
No argument here. Heck, I'm one of the people providing pre-made versions.
The unfortunate fact is though, that no package management is perfect, and the pre-made versions won't always fit everyone's need. That's why open source is a Good Thing. It's good to have the option of a custom build, even when it's an option of last resort.
sherm--
