[magick-users] gs needed regardless?

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

    If I compiled ImageMagick 6.2.9-5 from source, and when I did that, 
the system did NOT have gs installed, and the configure discovered this 
accordingly, then why is it that when I run something as simple as

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    montage *.jpg -geometry +0+0 ../montage.jpg
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    it complains with:

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    sh: gs: command not found
    sh: gs: command not found
    montage: no decode delegate for this image format 
`/tmp/magick-XX5P54nr'.
    montage: Postscript delegate failed `/tmp/magick-XX5P54nr'.
    ../montage.jpg  750x2987 DirectClass 16-bit 2.49903mb 2.810u 0:04
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    Notice that it still generates the image (last line), but not 
without complaining that it can't find gs.  gs was never on this system, 
ever.  Does IM absolutely need gs, even though the configure command 
didn't find it, and I assume compiled without support for it?

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