From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 11:53:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8679616A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:53:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (sea1-f121.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6512C43D1F for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:53:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:53:55 -0800 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:53:55 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] X-Sender: crollins666@hotmail.com From: "clayton rollins" To: ports@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:53:55 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Apr 2004 19:53:55.0785 (UTC) FILETIME=[10CA9390:01C41823] cc: davidtg@justpickone.org Subject: Re: new 5.5.8 / 6.0 ImageMagick? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 19:53:56 -0000 On April 1, 2004, David T-G wrote: > >Hi! > >Thanks so much for the /usr/ports directory; I *love* FreeBSD! :-) > >I don't know how ports are updated, but when can I hope to see a fresh >version of ImageMagick? I'd like to use at least 5.5.8, but 6.0 is now >out and so I'd use that if given a choice. > >TIA & HAND > Hi David, Ports are generally updated by the users of the software. More dedicated users may also opt to become maintainer for an orphaned port, such as ImageMagick. read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ for the gory details of porting, if you're interested. As for your request, the newest stable version I could find was 5.5.7-17. I couldn't find any reason in the release notes why this release was put out or if it's worthwhile to update the port. If you know where to get 5.5.8, please give a link. The only 6.0 I could find was at: ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/beta/ which is beta. (beta software doesn't generally go into ports, especially if a stable release is available.) When configuring this version, I got unexpected results. Quite a few libraries, such as xml, tiff, and jpeg, fail configuration tests. Though it still built, 'make check' gives one failed test and I managed to crash it within minutes of starting. I won't likely go any further on this, as I don't use ImageMagick and don't really have time for figuring out why the 6.0 code fails. (I'm mostly writing to save other list members time, if they decide to pursue this, and to get a link to 5.5.8.) Regards, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ Get reliable access on MSN 9 Dial-up. 3 months for the price of 1! (Limited-time offer) http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&pgmarket=en-us&ST=1/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/