[GEM-dev] ./configure build on apple dies with imagemagick errors

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 18, 2006, at 11:13 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Its building now, both on my machine, and in the auto-builder  
>> Tiger box
>
> fine
>
>> last night.  I forgot to include the line to install Gem, so it  
>> won't show up in the auto-build binary package until tomorrow.   
>> Since we are on this topic, I'd like to see if we can get Gem to  
>> use the fink-installed deps.  The auto-build configure looks like  
>> this (PowerMac G4/10.4.7):
>>   image-support
>>     use ImageMagick      : no (forced)
>>     use TIFF             : no
>>     use JPEG             : no
>>   video-support
>>     use mpeg             : no
>>     use mpeg-3           : no
>>     use QuickTime        : yes (framework)
>>     use aviplay          : no
>>     use ffmpeg           : no
>>   input-support
>>     use v4l              : no
>>     use ieee1394         : no
>>   misc
>>     using ARB-extensions : yes
>>     using NV-extensions  : no
>>     using reg-struct-ret : yes
>> On my machine, it looks like this (PowerBookG4 10.4.7):
>>   image-support
>>     use ImageMagick      : no (forced)
>>     use TIFF             : no
>>     use JPEG             : yes
>>   video-support
>>     use mpeg             : yes
>>     use mpeg-3           : no
>>     use QuickTime        : yes (framework)
>>     use aviplay          : no
>>     use ffmpeg           : no
>>   input-support
>>     use v4l              : no
>>     use ieee1394         : yes
>>   misc
>>     using ARB-extensions : yes
>>     using NV-extensions  : yes
>>     using reg-struct-ret : yes
>> - libjpeg wasn't installed on the auto-build machine, but libmpeg  
>> was, but it didn't find it... any ideas?
>> - libtiff was installed on both using Fink, but neither found it.   
>> - ffmpeg is installed on both too, but luck there
>
> actually this shouldn't matter at all.
> apple's quicktime api should provide everything that jpeg/tiff/mpeg/ 
> ffmpeg/... provide too, so there is really no reason to use these.
> as a matter of fact, i don't think anybody has ever tried any of  
> these libraries on os-x (with Gem i mean)
>
>> - I can't figure out what's installed on my machine to enable  
>> ieee1394 and NV-extensions.
>
> i think this is ignored on osx anyhow.

Ah, ok, alles klar.  Then the auto-build Mac OS X version should  
include all Gem functionality then?

.hc

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