[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#598693: imagemagick: compile with libfftw?

[Alan Braslau]

Package: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.6.0.4-2.2
Severity: wishlist


Imagemagick needs to be recompiled with libfftw
to work with the options -fft and -ift.
In order not to add a dependance on libfftw3-3,
this option is not enabled in the distributed
binary package.

Installing libfftw3-3 and libfftw3-dev
and recompiling the package:
	apt-get build-dep imagemagick;
	apt-get install libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev;
	apt-get -build source imagemagick;
	dpkg -i imagemagick_*.deb
is sufficient to create an fft-enabled
version of imagemagick.
Is this a correct proceedure to follow?
(notably, apt will try to update
over the locally compiled package...)

Would it be possible for the maintainers
to add a README.Debian file to explain
this and to provide a correct proceedure
to be followed by users
in order to keep an updated fft-enabled
version of imagemagick on their systems?

Thank you.

Alan

P.S. Some use of -fft/-ift
also requires hdri support
(but not all!)
so this wish item is somewhat,
but not entirely, related to #476357.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages imagemagick depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfftw3-3              3.2.2-1          library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgomp1                4.4.4-17         GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62               6b1-1            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1                1.18.dfsg-1.2+b3 Color management library
ii  liblqr-1-0              0.4.1-1          converts plain array images into m
ii  libltdl7                2.2.6b-2         A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libmagickcore3          8:6.6.0.4-2.2    low-level image manipulation libra
ii  libmagickwand3          8:6.6.0.4-2.2    image manipulation library
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libtiff4                3.9.4-3          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.2-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages imagemagick recommends:
ii  ghostscript               8.71~dfsg2-6   The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii  libmagickcore3-extra      8:6.6.0.4-2.2  low-level image manipulation libra
ii  netpbm                    2:10.0-12.2+b1 Graphics conversion tools between 
ii  ufraw-batch               0.16-3+b1      batch importer for raw camera imag

Versions of packages imagemagick suggests:
ii  autotrace     0.31.1-15+b1               bitmap to vector graphics converte
ii  cups-bsd [lpr 1.4.4-6                    Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  curl          7.21.1-1                   Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or 
ii  enscript      1.6.5.2-1                  converts text to Postscript, HTML 
ii  ffmpeg        5:0.6~svn20100726-0.0      audio/video encoder, streaming ser
ii  gimp          2.6.10-1                   The GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii  gnuplot       4.4.0-1                    A command-line driven interactive 
pn  grads         <none>                     (no description available)
ii  groff-base    1.20.1-10                  GNU troff text-formatting system (
pn  hp2xx         <none>                     (no description available)
pn  html2ps       <none>                     (no description available)
ii  imagemagick-d 8:6.6.0.4-2.2              document files of ImageMagick
ii  libwmf-bin    0.2.8.4-6.1+b1             Windows metafile conversion tools
ii  mplayer       2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.0 The Ultimate Movie Player For Linu
ii  povray        1:3.6.1-12+b1              Persistence of vision raytracer (3
pn  radiance      <none>                     (no description available)
ii  sane-utils    1.0.21-4                   API library for scanners -- utilit
ii  texlive-binar 2009-7                     Binaries for TeX Live
ii  transfig      1:3.2.5.c-1                Utilities for converting XFig figu
ii  xdg-utils     1.0.2+cvs20100307-2        desktop integration utilities from

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