Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/07/17/08:10:35
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
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Andy Rushton, Southampton, UK
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