Failure to run image magic in the latest release

[Mark Hadfield]

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.

I think it affects GraphicsMagick also.


-- 
Mark Hadfield          "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)











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