[magick-users] Help! I don't understand delegates. ImageMagick failure on AIX (100% make test errors)

[Rich Cook]

What are DFS and GSA?  How can I tell if I'm running on them?   The  
file system I'm installing and running on is a global, cross-platform  
file system.  To my knowledge, there are no ACL's being used.  And  
there are no error messages about permissions being denied.

On Jun 30, 2007, at 8:41 AM, David Favor wrote:

> Looks like you may be running on something like DFS or GSA.
>
> Back in my daze, er I mean days, at IBM trying to install software
> on this type of filesystem caused all manner of problems because of
> the extended ACLs.
>
> In other words, doing normal file permission tests fail in strange
> ways unless software is specifically coded to deal with extended ACLs.
> And since only IBM really runs GSA, trying to get a system to test  
> this
> on is challenging.
>
> I suggest you first install ImageMagic on a non-GSA drive. For  
> example,
> on a lab machine, if you only have GSA access by way of a Windoze  
> client.
>
> Alternatively, you can find every occurrence of file permissions  
> tests and
> comment them out. If you do this, be prepared for even weirder  
> failures.
>
> - David
>
> Rich Cook wrote:
>> Hi, I am having a lot of trouble with ImageMagick on AIX.  I don't  
>> understand how to debug the idea of delegates.  The build and  
>> install went fine, although I had to tweak a little to get that to  
>> complete.  However, every command gives me errors, like this:
>> rcook at up041 (aix_5_64_fed): bin/display ~/testpage.png
>> display: no decode delegate for this image format `/g/g0/rcook/ 
>> testpage.png'.
>> display: unable to open image `logo:': No such file or directory.
>> rcook at up041 (aix_5_64_fed): bin/display ~/dataAndImages/junk.ps
>> display: no decode delegate for this image format `/g/g0/rcook/ 
>> dataAndImages/junk.ps'.
>> display: unable to open image `logo:': No such file or directory.
>> rcook at up041 (aix_5_64_fed): bin/convert ~/dataAndImages/test.tiff  
>> test.ppm
>> convert: no decode delegate for this image format `/g/g0/rcook/ 
>> dataAndImages/test.tiff'.
>> convert: missing an image filename `test.ppm'.
>> etc.
>> Also, when I do a "make test" it fails, and spews out billions of  
>> messages like this:
>> /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/ 
>> tests/.libs/lt-rwblob /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/ 
>> aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/input_gray.miff GIF
>> lt-rwblob: no decode delegate for this image format `/usr/global/ 
>> tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/ 
>> input_gray.miff'. FAIL: tests/rwblob_GIF_gray.sh
>> /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/ 
>> tests/.libs/lt-rwblob /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/ 
>> aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/input_pallette.miff GIF
>> lt-rwblob: no decode delegate for this image format `/usr/global/ 
>> tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/ 
>> input_pallette.miff'. FAIL: tests/rwblob_GIF_pallette.sh
>> /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/ 
>> tests/.libs/lt-rwblob /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/ 
>> aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/input_truecolor.miff GIF
>> lt-rwblob: no decode delegate for this image format `/usr/global/ 
>> tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/ 
>> input_truecolor.miff'. FAIL: tests/rwblob_GIF_truecolor.sh
>> /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/ 
>> tests/.libs/lt-rwblob -size 70x46 /usr/global/tools/ImageMagick/ 
>> 6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/ 
>> input_truecolor_70x46.miff GRAY
>> lt-rwblob: no decode delegate for this image format `/usr/global/ 
>> tools/ImageMagick/6.3.4/aix_5_64_fed/ImageMagick-6.3.4/tests/ 
>> input_truecolor_70x46.miff'. FAIL: tests/ 
>> rwblob_GRAY_truecolor_70x46.sh
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