[Xastir] Magick Error - Ubuntu 15.04

[Lee Bengston]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 07:19:25PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <lee.bengston at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>
> ​   ---- snip ----​

>
> > So problem solved, but given the OS had been upgraded, I wonder if just
> > re-compiling the March version of Xastir would have been enough.  I'm not
> > aware of any changes to Xastir between March and now that were designed
> to
> > address compatibility with a newer version of GraphicsMagick.
>
> There have not been any code changes to Xastir in a while.  A very long
> while, actually.
>
> Odds are that you would have found everything to be working after a
> recompile/
> relink after the upgrade.   Rebuilding Xastir is always the first thing I
> do after completing an OS upgrade, because I expect there to be shared
> library
> issues in the binary.  I'm surprised it even ran at all.


​Yeah, I'm not surprised - too many changes in an OS upgrade to expect
things to just work.

Thanks,
Lee - K5DAT
​