Can't compile - library not found

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mmonk

Can't compile - library not found

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Hi,

I need to install ImageMagick & PerlMagick on a linux webserver on which I do not have root. I can only write within my home directory and I cannot run anything from /sbin, including ldconfig.

When I compile and install imagemagick in my home directory using the --prefix and --with-perl-options=PREFIX= flags with configure, PerlMagick does not work. This seems to be because the Magick.so file cannot find the libMagick.so.10 file:

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$ ldd ./lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so
        libMagick.so.10 => not found
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00002b0084e29000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00002b0084fb4000)
        libtiff.so.3 => /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.3 (0x00002b00850c9000)
        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00002b008521c000)
        libbz2.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00002b008533d000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002b008544d000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00002b0085562000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00002b00856e8000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)
Now, if I set up an environmental variable in my shell, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, that points to the location of libMagick.so.10 in my home directory, then Magick.so will work. But this does not help me with what I really need it to do, because when I run PerlMagick from a web server, there is no way to set the environmental variable before Magick.so is loaded (that I know of), so it fails (often crashing the web server, incidently).

Now it seems to me that there should be a way to compile imagemagick so that Magick.so already knows, by itself, where to get libMagick.so.10. However, I have not been able to figure out how to do this. I have read the Advanced Unix Install documentation, and googled, and experimented, and asked elsewhere (including in the PerlMagick section here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8133&p=25860 ).

Can anybody here help me to do this? It seems like something that imagemagick should be able to do. I imagine there are many people who want to install it to run on a webserver on which they don't have root access.

Thanks so much for any help you can provide.
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