Well, I told my lazy sysadmin to get off his butt and just do the Image Magick source install. Since I'm the lazy sysadmin in question, I went ahead and did it. Everything worked fine after that point. Where "everything" means I installed the Perlmagick from the source that came with ImageMagick rather than from the cpan available archive.
It seems the cpan archive for Image Magick is broken, becuase it doesn't contain a set of files necessary for a sucessful install.
Thanks for the response.
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See
http://search.cpan.org/src/JCRISTY/PerlMagick-6.20/README.txt
Introduction
PerlMagick, is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick.
Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence
from within a Perl script. This makes it suitable for Web CGI scripts. You
must have ImageMagick 6.0.2 or above installed on your system for this
module to work properly.
See
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/perl.html
for additional information about PerlMagick. See
http://www.imagemagick.org/
for instructions about installing ImageMagick.
Installation
Get the PerlMagick distribution and type the following:
gunzip ImageMagick-6.0.2-2.tar.gz
tar xvf ImageMagick-6.0.2
Follow the ImageMagick installation instructions in INSTALL-unix.txt
then type
cd PerlMagick
Next, edit Makefile.PL and change LIBS and INC to include the appropriate
path information to the required libMagick library. You will also need
library search paths (-L) to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc. libraries if they were
included with your installed version of ImageMagick. If an extension
library is built as a shared library but not installed in the system's
default library search path, you may need to add run-path information
(often -R or -rpath) corresponding to the equivalent library search
path option so that the library can be located at run-time.
To create and install the dymamically-loaded version of PerlMagick
(the preferred way), execute
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
To create and install a new 'perl' executable (replacing your existing
PERL interpreter!) with PerlMagick statically linked (but other libraries
linked statically or dynamically according to system linker default),
execute
perl Makefile.PL
make perl
make -f Makefile.aperl inst_perl
or to create and install a new PERL interpreter with a different name
than 'perl' (e.g. 'PerlMagick') and with PerlMagick statically linked
perl Makefile.PL MAP_TARGET=PerlMagick
make PerlMagick
make -f Makefile.aperl inst_perl
See the ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3) manual page for more information on
building PERL extensions (like PerlMagick).
For Windows systems, type
perl Makefile.nt
nmake install
For Unix, you typically need to be root to install the software.
There are ways around this. Consult the Perl manual pages for more
information. You are now ready to utilize the PerlMagick routines from
within your Perl scripts.
Testing PerlMagick
Before PerlMagick is installed, you may want to execute
make test
to verify that PERL can load the PerlMagick extension ok. Chances are
some of the tests will fail if you do not have the proper delegates
installed for formats like JPEG, TIFF, etc.
To see a number of PerlMagick demonstration scripts, type
cd demo
make
Example Perl Magick Script
Here is an example script to get you started:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Image::Magick;
$q = Image::Magick->new;
$x = $q->Read("model.gif", "logo.gif", "rose.gif");
warn "$x" if $x;
$x = $q->Crop(geom=>'100x100+100+100');
warn "$x" if $x;
$x = $q->Write("x.gif");
warn "$x" if $x;
The script reads three images, crops them, and writes a single image
as a GIF animation sequence.
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Well, yeah, one can download a tarball and install from source. And that was the solution used to get a working installation on my system.
But that's not the purpose of CPAN available modules is it? CPAN module installation should resolve dependencies and, depending on the local config, follow the dependencies or ask to follow. Having make die due to file(s) missing from the build directory does not seem like proper behavior.
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