I was trying to run a program that uses imageMagic++ libraries to draw directed graphs to a xwindow. However, I couldn't get the pictures of the graphs to appear until I unmerged my copy of ImageMagick and installed it from source. I don't want to deviate from the portage tree, so does anyone know what could have possibly gone wrong and what I can do to fix it? A detailed account follows.
Using an emerged imagemagick 6.2.9 and a kde environment, the programs output was a was a blank borderless white square that popped up where a Xwindow with a picture of a graph should have been. No errors were reported by the program.
Ok, so I switched to gnome.
Now the program's output was an Xwindow with a blank white square where the picture of a graph should have been. No errors or premature termination were reported in my terminal that called the program.
Still, progress...
I played with all the USE flags, enabling all the switches that I could (except for that disable C++ switch), but still no graph.
Finally, I unemerged the ImageMagick package and compiled from 6.2.9 source from the ImageMagick website.
Now I get the the right program output: a popup Xwindow with a picture of a graph.
make.conf: USE="gtk gnome kde qt arts dvd avahi alsa cdr X doc opengl hal dbus"
/etc/portage/package.conf: media-gfx/imagemagick X bzip2 doc fpx graphviz gs jbig jpeg jpeg2k mpeg png tiff truetype wmf xml zlib lcms
reemerged with --newuse --update --deep imagemagick
Hope this is detailed enough to warrant some help.
Thanks,
Trevor