Re: Why does libMagickCore depend on X11 ?

Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.image-magick.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
[email protected] wrote:
>> Iow, could it be possible to modify ImageMagick so that the console
>> applications and the libs themselves do not depend on X libs?
> 
> A user can configure ImageMagick without X lib depenencies.  Try
> 
>   cd ImageMagick-6.4.0
>   ./configure --without-x
> 
> This, as expected, disables the display, animate, and import programs since
> they depend on the X11 libraries.
> 

But if this disables only these programs, then why is libMagickCore itself 
linked against X11-libraries, shouldn't only these programs be linked against 
X11 libs then?

Regards,

Hans
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