Comment 3 for bug 1866365

Unfortunately, when trying to get ImageMagick 7 + php-imagick to work on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, one of the steps of the compilation requires /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.la.

I guess that for some arcane reason, ImageMagick 7 won't be supported until (hopefully) groovy is out, but that doesn't mean that some of us don't need it *now*. ImageMagick 7 was released in April 2016 — that's well over four years now — has had 6688 commits to GitHub and 227 releases as of today, so it's definitely very robust and mature code, and supported by almost every other distribution I'm aware of (including macOS via Homebrew!), so I hardly understand why it has been absent from Ubuntu for so long. Still, I guess that's the decision of someone else, and the point is that we have no other option than to compile it from sources — and that inevitably means dealing with things such as libfreetype.la to be present in the system...