Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Andy Rushton]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:27:37PM +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>   
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix.
>>>>
>>>> After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, the convert program
>>>> stopped working. It simply exited silently, though I discover with gdb
>>>> that it was failing with an unknown exception. It turned out that this
>>>> was because of a missing dll, specifically
>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdpstk-1.dll, which also requires
>>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/cygdps-1.dll.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
>>>> x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?
>>>>         
>>> Just one:  cygwin/x issues should really go to the cygwin-xfree mailing
>>> list.
>>>       
>> I for one am very glad it has been mentioned on the Cygwin list, as I 
>> had noticed similar behaviour but not bothered to establish the cause. 
>> And I would never have thought it was an X-related problem as convert is 
>> a non-graphical program.
>>     
>
> So maybe you should be reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list then.
>
>   
>> I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.
>>     
>
> It is, without a doubt, a cygwin/x issue.  So please no more whining here.
>   
Who's whining? I just posted a work-around to a Cygwin-related problem. 
In case you're unaware, this is not an X-Windows tool, it is a 
command-line tool so this is the natural mailing list for discussing it. 
The fact that it uses some functionality from X libraries doesn't change 
it's command-line nature

As I see it, it's not for me to say where the problem is. It could be 
that ImageMagick does not need to have a dependency on this DLL, in 
which case it is a problem for the maintainer of ImageMagick. Of course 
it could be that the X people have inadvertently missed out the DLL from 
the latest release, in which case it would *then* be an XFree problem. 
How am I to know which package is the faulty one? .

Posting this report here with a work-around that fixes it gives those 
who use ImageMagick an insight into the problem as the response from 
Mark shows. If the post was useful, it was relevant.

Andy

-- 
Andy Rushton, Southampton, UK

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