build ImageMagick 6.4.4.1_1 from ports failed...

[Manolis Kiagias]

Aggelidis Nikos wrote:
> Here are the configurations options:
>
> ===> The following configuration options are available for
> ImageMagick-6.4.4.1_1:
>      X11=on "X11 support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_TESTS=on "Run bundled self-tests after build"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_OPENMP=off "OpenMP for SMP (needs threads)"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_PERL=on "Perl support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_MODULES=off "Modules support (broken)"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_BZLIB=on "Bzlib support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_16BIT_PIXEL=on "16bit pixel support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_DJVU=off "DJVU format support (needs threads)"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_LCMS=on "LCMS support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_HDRI=off "High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI)"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_TTF=on "Freetype support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_FONTCONFIG=on "Fontconfig support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_JPEG=on "JPG format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_OPENEXR=off "OpenEXR support (needs threads)"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_PNG=on "PNG format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_TIFF=on "TIFF format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_FPX=on "FPX format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_JBIG=on "JBIG format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_JPEG2000=on "JPEG2000 format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_DOT=off "GraphViz dot graphs support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_WMF=off "WMF format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_SVG=off "SVG format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_PDF=on "PDF format support"
>      IMAGEMAGICK_GSLIB=off "libgs (Postscript SHLIB) support"
> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
>
>   
>> what platform and FBSD version?
>>     
>
> #uname -a: FreeBSD apollo 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb
> 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008
> root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
>   
>> did you build with perl support?
>>     
> yes
>
>   
>> If I remember well, this is a known issue.  Change to the port's directory,
>> execute make config, and deselect IMAGEMAGICK_TESTS from the options dialog.
>> It should build and install fine.
>>
>>     
> oh i didn't know this, but Anton stated that
>   
>> I've passed all tests on i386
>>     
>
> So you think i should disable the tests and recompile?
>
> thank you all for your help so far,
> nikos
>   

AFAIR, there was a discussion about this not so long ago, and compiling 
without the tests was a proposed solution. In fact, I just checked my 
system and I have ImageMagick installed without the tests in the config 
options.