[Magick-bugs] Why does libMagickCore depend on X11 ?

[Lubomir Kundrak]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:51 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Short intro (again): I'm a new co-maintainer of the Fedora package ImageMagick 
> and as such walking through all open ImageMagick bugs in Fedora's bugzilla.
> 
> While discussing ImageMagick on the Fedora mailinglist I got the following 
> question:
> 
> ---
> Just curious; will this new version allow us to do some basic
> splitting so that packages like Mediawiki won't depend on X libraries?
> Currently the console applications like convert are linked against X.
> ---
> 
> Iow, could it be possible to modify ImageMagick so that the console 
> applications and the libs themselves do not depend on X libs?

Hans,

I am wondering whether adding "-Wl,--as-needed" to LDFLAGS would help
[1].

[1] http://udrepper.livejournal.com/19395.html

Regards,
-- 
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)