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24.1.50; Image Magick related build failure on bzr revision 108365

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Kalle Kankare <kalle.kankare <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 11558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11558: 24.1.50; Image Magick related build failure on bzr revision 108365
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:19:21 +0200

Hello.

11 jul 2012 kl. 22:24 skrev Kalle Kankare:

> Hi,
> 
> I am also seeing the problem of temacs failing to load lisp/image.el
> on 64-bit Archlinux during build. It fails with the following output:
> 
> ...
> Loading /home/kopoli/src/emacs/lisp/image.el (source)...
> temacs: magick/exception.c:968: ThrowMagickExceptionList: Assertion
> `exception->signature == 0xabacadabUL' failed.
> /bin/sh: line 6: 27994 Aborted                 `/bin/pwd`/temacs
> --batch --load loadup bootstrap
> ...
> 
> By running temacs through gdb it appears that the problem is in the
> defun "imagemagick-types". The call to "GetMagickList" receives an
> argument of type ExceptionInfo, which, by my interpretation of the
> error message, needs to be initialized a certain way. Currently it is
> just given an uninitialized local variable as an argument.
> 
> By looking through through ImageMagick documentation, the functions
> "GetExceptionInfo" and "DestroyExceptionInfo" initialize and
> deinitialize the ExceptionInfo-structure, respectively.
> 
> I got the build to complete by introducing the following change:
> 
> --- src/image.c	2012-07-09 12:02:27 +0000
> +++ src/image.c	2012-07-11 19:59:24 +0000
> @@ -7968,7 +7968,9 @@
>   Lisp_Object typelist = Qnil;
>   size_t numf = 0;
>   ExceptionInfo ex;
> +  GetExceptionInfo(&ex);
>   char **imtypes = GetMagickList ("*", &numf, &ex);
> +  DestroyExceptionInfo(&ex);
>   size_t i;
>   Lisp_Object Qimagemagicktype;
>   for (i = 0; i < numf; i++)
> 
> 
> The generated emacs-binary at least appears to function properly. I
> tested this with the following versions:
> 
> emacs: bzr:109033
> gcc: 4.7.1
> ImageMagick: 6.7.8-1

I see this too.  Can it be that GetExceptionInfo/DestroyExceptionInfo is version dependent and we need a configure check for them? People have run Emacs with Imagemagic without this.

	Jan D.

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