On Tue, 11 May 2010 21:15:52 -0600 [email protected] wrote:
| I installed ImageMagick using the --disable-openmp option and this | solved the problem. Curiously however, when I would check which version | of convert it came back with /usr/local/bin/convert as opposed to | /usr/bin/convert which was where the honorific hostgator s/a staff | installed it leading to the disaster. | | % which convert | /usr/local/bin/convert | | I ran convert without forcing the path and it balked and took about 9 | seconds. Then when I ran it with the full path, it worked flawlessly: | | /home/www% uptime ; date ; /usr/local/bin/convert oak_tree.jpg -resize | 480 -strip oak_tree480.jpg ; date ; uptime | 21:50:56 up 13 days, 1:24, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.52, 1.22 | Tue May 11 21:50:56 CDT 2010 | Tue May 11 21:50:56 CDT 2010 | 21:50:56 up 13 days, 1:24, 2 users, load average: 0.17, 0.52, 1.22 | | I installed a second time using he --prefix option but it did not seem | to make any difference. | | ./configure --disable-openmp --prefix /usr/bin | | I thought this would overwrite the /usr/bin/convert but it did not. Do | you have to do a dash or perhaps double-quote /usr/bin in order for it | to be recognized? | | To get past this in the meantime I rename /usr/bin/convert and created a | hard link from /usr/local/bin/convert. Probably should do the same with | identify if this is the only way. | | -Bob | --prefix should be in the 'containing directory' for all bins and libraries. That is --prefix=/usr is what you should have used. you will find you now have a four sub-directories in /usr/bin that will need to be cleaned up... eg /usr/bin/bin /usr/bin/lib /usr/bin/include /usr/bin/share I do not and never have recommended any software package be directly installed when it is not part of a package management system. Any direct installed packages is best installed in a /opt sub-directory such as --prefix=/opt/im (put everything in /opt/im sub-dir) This keeps it separate and easy to clean up, especially if you want to test or try multiple different packages. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[email protected]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Castle http://www.cit.griffith.edu.au/~anthony/ _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
