Re: Emacs and ImageMagick-7 issues

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * Angelo Graziosi <natryb.tenmvbfv@nyvpr.vg> [2016-10-02 22:14:01 +0200]:
>
> Just for the record I want to flag the following.
>
> A few months ago, on MSYS2-MinGW64, there was the upgrade from
> ImageMagick 6.x to version 7.x. After this, 'configure' stopped to add
> support for ImageMagick when building Emacs:
>
> Does Emacs use imagemagick?                             no
>
> (with version 6.x it is 'yes').
>
> This seems related to the fact that ImageMagick people has changed many
> file name, adding 'Magick' ahead. For example, 'configure' search for
> Wand.pc but there is MagickWand.pc etc. As consequence, also image.c
> seems broken related to ImageMagick-7.
>
> I think this will regard also other systems when they will upgrade to
> ImageMagick-7, unless that people will revert the naming convention.

I wonder what the plans are wrt ImageMagick-7.

Thank you!

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