Re: compiling ImageMagick on NetBSD 5

["OBATA Akio" <obata%lins.jp@localhost>]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:00:51 +0900, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost> writes:
>
> > I'm now giving up, and attaching a patch to make OpenEXR support optional.
> >
> > Question: leave it on by default, as that is what is currently the case,
> > or switch it off, magically fix the netbsd 5 builds?
> > (Patch does the former)
>
> I would say
>
>   definitely add the option (not controversial)
>
>   let's make the option default off (and therefore PKGREVISION++)
>
>
> If openexr gets in a state where it builds ~everywhere that imagemagick
> does, we can flip the default back.
>
> My impression is that very few uses of imagemagick use openexr.
>
>
> We could also make the default different per platform.  But I would tend
> to just turn it off.

Why not build ImageMagick with --with-modules and provide such optional
module as separate packages?

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