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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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