[Buildroot] Building a usable ImageMagick

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

Le Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:26:40 +0200,
Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il> a ?crit :

> I'm trying to produce a working ImageMagick installation under
> Buildroot. According to my test ImageMagick depends on having *.la
> files in the /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.4.8/modules-Q16/coders/ directory
> in order to find its codecs at run-time.

Argh, odd. I just had a quick look at ImageMagick source code, and
that's right, they seem to use the .la files at runtime, at least to
get the list of available modules.

> Unfortunately, the target-finalize target in the main Makefile
> includes the following line:
> 
> find $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/lib \( -name '*.a' -o -name '*.la' \) -print0
> | xargs -0 rm -f
> 
> which means that all *.la file get removed from the target. What is
> the best approach to solve this issue?

.la files really aren't meant to be used at run time, so I would
suggest to fix ImageMagick. Why don't they use the .so files to get the
list of available modules ?

Sincerly,

Thomas
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