Imagemagick, GraphicsMagick, X11 DLLs problem

[Mark Hadfield]

So this is the list where I can talk about what I want and CGF won't 
accuse me of whining? Cool!

On 17 July Andy Rushton reported a problem with Image Magick (it affects 
Graphics Magick as well) and asked for advice about where to pursue it:

> 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.
> 
> A bit more digging and I found that these DLLs used to be part of
> package xorg-x11-bin-dlls but has been removed with the latest release -
> 6.8.99.901-1.
> 
> I've fixed the problem for myself by grabbing these DLLs from the
> previous version of this package (xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.8.2.0) and
> hand-installing them.
> 
> So, as I said, I don't know whether this could be fixed by you or the
> x11 maintainers. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the work-around, Andy.

CGF said it was an X problem and should be discussed on the Xfree list.

On 18 July Andy raised it on the Xfree list. There's been no response there.

Now I'm not whining and I'm not asking for anyone to do anything for me 
(because I know this is a community of volunteers). And anyway, I have 
applied the workaround reported by Andy, so I'm fine. But you'd think 
someone somewhere would be a teensy bit concerned that IM and GM don't 
work on Cygwin without an arcane workaround. (The IM and GM maintainers 
perhaps?). So if anyone anywhere would like to suggest how I could bring 
this to the attention of someone who might be willing and able to fix 
this, I'd be grateful.


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