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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2001 20:40:36 -0700
From:      Tony Sweeney <sweeney@shell3.addr.com>
To:        Reinier Post <rp@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        ImageMagick developers list <magick-developer@imagemagick.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems compiling ImageMagick 5.3.1 from ports
Message-ID:  <3AFB5F34.E8A5DB00@shell3.addr.com>
References:  <3AF8D1C8.599EC430@shell3.addr.com> <20010509090540.A18466@win.tue.nl>

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Reinier Post wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:12:40PM -0700, Tony Sweeney wrote to magick-dev:
> 
> > Hi,
> >       I updated my FreeBSD ports tree last weekend,and ran into a few
> > problems with some of the ports I use regularly.  I eventually came to
> > the conclusion that I needed the latest[1] version of ImageMagick, so I
> > tried to build that, and it won't build.  It doesn't even get past the
> > initial configure stage.  I get one error initially, then if I run it
> > again, it successfully gets past where it got before, but still fails.
> > Has anyone else gotten this to work?  Either I'm doing something
> > staggeringly dumb, or it's broken.  This is on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE.
> 
> [...]
> > ltconfig: unrecognized option `--build=i386--freebsd4.3'
> [...]
> 
> I've had this error in the past on FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE with an
> earlier version of the port.
> 
> The problem was the libtool I had on my FreeBSD system.  It was too
> old, and the ImageMagick port didn't list it as a dependency.
> ImageMagick comes with its own libtool but the port apparently uses the
> existing one.

Yep, that was it.  I installed the port for libtool-1.3.4, remade
ImageMagick (remembering to make clean first), and it installed without
a hitch.  Thanks a bunch!

Tony.
-- 
> 
> This is the message I sent back then.
> 
> | Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:20:45 +0200
> | To: torstenb@freebsd.org
> | Subject: FreeBSD 4.0 ImageMagick 5.2.3 port - missing libtool dependency
> |
> |   Hello Torsten,
> |
> | Earlier this year I started to use FreeBSD; its ports system won me over.
> | At the moment I'm running on-the-fly image creation software for use in
> | a webserver, and so far I've managed to do it with existing packages and
> | ports.  ImageMagick is one of them.
> |
> | The reason I'm writing is that 'make install' failed for 5.2.3.
> | It failed in the test for the mingw32 environment.  When restarted,
> | it failed in its call to ltconfig (right after its check for 'strip').
> |
> | It turns out I had to upgrade my libtool package.  After that, it
> | installed normally.  I haven't figured out how to add dependencies to a
> | package but maybe you can add this?  I haven't checked if this resolves
> | the mingw32 problem as well.
> |
> | Before I forget,
> |
> |   Thanks for your package!
> 
> --
> Reinier Post                                             rp@win.tue.nl

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