Hi Mike, On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:18:20PM +1100, Mike Williams wrote: > >So maintainers, please take the advice given in that mail and fix your > >packages to a) not use the output of Magick-config --libs when linking, and > >b) use the Debian version of libtool (if applicable). > >(One alternative to using Magick-config --libs seems to be to use > >pkg-config > >-- not because ImageMagick gets its pkg-config support right, but because > >it > >happens to get it right in a way that benefits us. ;) > Steve, can you give me some advice? I'm attempting to fix this > librmagick-ruby bug by switching from Magick-config to pkg-config. > Attached is the patch I'm planning to apply ... basically, it avoids > using $CFLAGS and $LDFLAGS values computing by "configure" (using > Magick-config) and uses output from "pkg-config" instead. > In my case, "Magick-config --libs" outputs > -lMagick -llcms -ltiff -lfreetype -ljasper -ljpeg -lpng -ldpstk > -ldps -lXext -lXt -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lbz2 -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm > -lpthread > whereas "pkg-config --libs ImageMagick" returns just > -lMagick > So, does it sound like this change will do the job? Yep, this is exactly what you want to see when using pkg-config for shared linking on a GNU ELF platform; everything else is extraneous. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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