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

[David Favor]

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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