Really been enjoying IM, upgraded today to fix the -loop 0 stall error on animated GIFs, and I'm having a bit of trouble with my install configuration on 64bit x86 Suse Linux 10, server install.
I have the necessary libraries installed and working with the 6.4.2 install.
If I use the default scenario (./configure, make, make check, make install) for 6.4.9, the configure script DOES acknowledge the installed libraries/delegates. There are a few errors during 'make check', maybe they'll be helpful here, let me know and I can post part or all of the log. I'm not sure if any are related to this problem. Executables 'compare' thru 'stream' all pass their respective tests ('identify' throws a bunch of rangecheck errors, but passes).
The validation for "image formats on disk" passes for the formats I have installed, as does "image formats in memory". The script "tests/validate.sh" gets a FAIL, the others PASS. Result is [check-TESTS] Error 1, [check-am] Error 2, and [check] Error 2. So far, so good enough, at least from what I can tell.
Following 'make install', the executables (all of them) are unable to find libMagickCore or libMagickWand unless I throw both in the /usr/lib64 directory. That addressed, the 'convert logo: logo.gif' command works perfectly (but run as root, see below).
So here's where I'm a bit confused...*please note I've been writing this while testing, all the above is probably completely irrelevant at this point
*...I just discovered that when running as user, I get the following errors:convert: UnableToOpenConfigureFile `delegates.xml' @ configure.c/GetConfigureOptions/553.
convert: NoDecodeDelegateForThisImageFormat `test.gif' @ constitute.c/ReadImage/526.
convert: MissingAnImageFilename `test.gif' @ convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2766.
And yeah, running the test 'convert logo: logo.gif' spits this out...
convert: UnableToOpenBlob `logo:': No such file or directory @ blob.c/OpenBlob/2427.
convert: MissingAnImageFilename `logo.gif' @ convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2766.
When running as root, everything works
...grumble grumble. I checked the permissions in /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib64, everything I need to execute as user appears to be r-x. Having noticed a minute ago that it's functional as root, I'm now feeling a bit stupid, but may as well ask the stupid questions because I've typed this much and it might help somebody else later...Is there a better way to point the software to the core and wand libraries?
And...scuse me while I duck all the manuals thrown at me for this one...should I be hunting for an environment variable or a permission setting, to explain the availability with root vs unavailability with user? (ducking frantically)
Thanks all, like I said, sorry about that last question, I figured someone else may encounter it later--and may have encountered it before, judging by some of the posts I found searching on this topic--so I thought I might as well post, and any help is most welcome before I start digging through the results of a pair of env commands and all the install paths for 6.4.9. At least the "no such file or directory" part from the logo command makes me think environment variable...
-Sean
That was the problem, every directory beneath ImageMagick-6.4.9 wasn't user rx.
but that is for a different thread.