PerlMagick fails at runtime in precise

[Leo Iannacone]

Try to install perlmagick package and run following command:

$ perl -e 'use Image::Magick'

I get this error:

perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so: undefined symbol: MagickCoreGenesis

It seems that perlmagick has some wrong link... let's see the buildlog (1):
Snippet:

cc -L../magick/.libs -lMagickCore -shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/lib/X11 Magick.o -o blib/arch/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so \
    -lperl -lm \

(1) - https://launchpadlibrarian.net/85356103/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.imagemagick_8%3A6.6.9.7-5ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz

[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

apt-cache policy perlmagick
perlmagick:
  Installed: 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

I don't understand...

I played with "PerlMagick/Makefile.PL.in" but LIBS seems not used.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I've got a fix for this. By the time MakeMaker is run, libMagickCore.so doesn't exist, so MakeMaker drops it from LIBS. By moving when MakeMaker is run until after the main library is built, we avoid this problem. Upload coming.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package imagemagick - 8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu2

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imagemagick (8:6.6.9.7-5ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/rules:
    - Build PerlMagick Makefile after building main library, so that
      MakeMaker can find the library instead of stripping it from the
      link line. LP: #897380
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:28:54 -0500