compile static version of imagemagick convert util

[aazlant]

looking to create static binaries for the imagemagick convert utlity on two platforms: ubuntu and os x.

the only discussion that I can find that discusses how to do this is from 2008, and is outdated.

I've tried downloading the .tar file from http://www.imagemagick.org/download/bin ... 0-0.tar.gz.

the discussion above suggests the following steps:

1. untarring, then building each delegate library as static (e.g. ./configure --disable-shared)
2. globally building with ./configure --disable-shared --enable-delegate-build
3. running make

which should build static versions of the main utilities.

I'm running into trouble building the delegate libraries as static, since the file structure of imagemagick has changed a lot in the past few years.

can somebody point me to the correct way to build a static version of the utility?