the package you installed has (correctly, IMNSHO) been configured to
use the default prefix of /usr/local. [...] edit ~/.bashrc
OK, got that part, thanks.
when troubleshooting, always look at the *first* error, not the last
one. At the beginning of these hundreds of lines, you'll find the root
cause, an error that looks like this:
Magick.xs:63:32: error: magick/ImageMagick.h: No such file or
directory
Actually no. But I have got this:
cc: @CPPFLAGS@: No such file or directory
cc: @: No such file or directory
cc: @LFS_CPPFLAGS@: No such file or directory
cc: @DEFS@: No such file or directory
In file included from Magick.xs:63:
/usr/local/include/magick/ImageMagick.h:774: error: `MaxTextExtent'
undeclared here (not in a function)
edit Makefile.PL and change LIBS and INC to include the appropriate
path information
Since I wrote the email, I've been trying to do that (although the
errors above seem to suggest that it's already looking in usr/local/)
and I'm a bit lost.
This is what I have for LIBS:
'LIBS' => ['-L/usr/lib -lMagick -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/lib -ltiff
-ljpeg -lpng -ldpstk -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2
-lpthread -lm -lpthread']
and this is INC
'INC' => '-I../ -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 -I/usr/include/libxml2'
so, can I get a hint on how to change those things? Add new items,
replace some of the ones there already? Add "/usr/local/" only or
"/usr/local/lib/" or something more specific? I'm particularly
mystified by the uppercase and lowercase "L"s.
Why would you expect a module to work in a manner that's contrary to
what its documentation clearly states?
I don't, but I've become used to being able to look for errors in $!. I
can see that this module is pretty much a wrapper around ImageMagick
code and that "mogrify" and pals return nothing at all unless
something's gone wrong, but ... I guess I've just never come across a
module like that before. Plus, if some of its methods return values
because they need to, and some of its methods only return values if
something's gone wrong, that's confusing.
