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bfdi533
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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject: trouble with imagemagick and tiff |
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I have media-libs/tiff (version 3.5.7-r1) and media-gfx/imagemagick (version 5.5.6) installed and when I try to convert a tiff file to, say, a png file I get the following error:
| Code: | convert: TIFFLibraryIsNotAvailable (land_ocean_ice_lights_2048.tif).
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I have done a re-emerge on imagemagick with the tiff library installed and still it did not detect and add in tiff support.
Update: FYI, tiff support is also missing from eog and gimp.
Please help.
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slartibartfasz
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add 'tiff' to your useflags and reemerge
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bfdi533
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| slartibartfasz wrote: | | add 'tiff' to your useflags and reemerge |
Oh, ok. I suppose gentoo does things a bit differently than I am used to yet. I would normally that thought that being installed would be enough. I will try that, thanks.
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slartibartfasz
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| bfdi533 wrote: | | slartibartfasz wrote: | | add 'tiff' to your useflags and reemerge |
Oh, ok. I suppose gentoo does things a bit differently than I am used to yet. I would normally that thought that being installed would be enough. I will try that, thanks.
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afaik it works like this - usually the ebuilds run the normal configure process of a package so u will get a default installation, so if this configure has the capability to include something if it is found and leave it out if not, i think thats exactly what will happen.
so the ebuilds will (in most cases) give u a default installation as intended by the original author of the package (who may or may not have something to do with gentoo). if u enable or disable something specifically by usflags however, gentoo takes care that it is en/disabled during the package configuration process.
to summarize: the configuration process of a package will use the original authors default unless u tell it something different by using flags. so if gimp and whatnot has tiff disabled by default u will not get it by simply emerging the tiff libraries, because gimps configuration process doesnt even atempt to look. if on the other hand u enable it in useflags, two things will happen: portage will dedect the dependency and emerge the libs and will then take care that the option is enabled during gimps configure process...
hope that clarifies it a bit...
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