Re: Bug report: Mac OSX 10.13.6

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Mason Morrow wrote:

> Hi, I just installed graphics magick and ran into some failing tests. It
> prompted me to send the error log to this email address. So I've attached
> it.

You should subscribe to the mailing list so that your message does not 
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The failures I see are due to Ghostscript ('gs') not being installed 
or not in PATH.  Apparently there must be a last-ditch effort to 
render a font via Ghostscript since everything else already failed. 
This is an interesting failure that I have not noticed before.  The 
preferred way to render fonts is using FreeType.

I may change the configure script's default handling of Ghostscript 
due to recent/ongoing security concerns in Ghostscript.

> I noticed `gm display` fails with `gm display: Unable to open X server ()`

Do you have a X server installed on your Mac OSX system?  If it is not 
installed and the software executed within an X11 environment with the 
DISPLAY environment variable properly set, then you should expect this 
failure.

> I also noticed that nearly all of the image types were not installed, but
> png was working.

Please see http://www.graphicsmagick.org/README.html and 
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/INSTALL-unix.html for traditional 
installation instructions.

Often people used something like Homebrew to install GraphicsMagick 
from source on Mac OSX.  See http://brewformulas.org/Graphicsmagick 
for more.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/