Amazon Linux ImageMagick with AutoTrace

[augr]

I am transitioning my server to Amazon Linux and can't for the life of me figure out how to remove the dependency to an old version of ImageMagick from Autotrace before I make everything for install.

Specifically, I am using AT only for its vector capabilities.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

[snibgo]

Sadly, autotrace seems to be no longer maintained. Perhaps not much work would be needed to make it work with recent IM versions.

A workaround kludge is:

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./configure --without-magick

At the top of input.c, insert:

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#define HAVE_MAGICK 0

Then:

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make

The result is a working version of autotrace.

[augr]

Thanks snibgo. I tried your suggestion and I didn't get any errors.

Unfortunately ImageMagic's value for autotrace is still no after I configure.

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make ./configure --with-autotrace=yes 

Perhaps there are other dependencies I need to install or remove?

[fmw42]

Do you know that autotrace works standalone? If not, check the install (config.log) of autotrace to see if there are any errors?

[snibgo]

You want to use autotrace as an internal delegate to IM? Okay. I've never done that. I don't know if it is possible with the hack I gave above (which builds autotrace without IM).

[augr]

Yes it would be a delegate to IM. I've done it before but completely forgot how I set it up.

Does anyone know which version of IM AT references? I can just use that and be done with it - hopefully.

[snibgo]

Hmm. Using a very old version of IM because AutoTrace (which is very old) requires it will probably cause problems in the future.

Why do you want AutoTrace as an internal delegate? It works fine as an external delegate (ie with an entry in delegates.xml).

[anthony]

The following was extracted from my personal notes on creating a autotrace package for fedora

Basically I wanted to remove its dependency on imagemagick and pstoedit -- neither of which it really needs.
Other than creating a replacement 'package' for fedora, without those dependancys the notes boiled down to
just adding the configure options --without-magick --without-pstoedit