[WM] Webmake not finding certain images.

[Robert Echlin]

jlm17 wrote:
> I am getting some errors with webmake like this:
> 
> Use of uninitialized value in string eq at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm line 1732.
> Use of uninitialized value in string eq at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/HTML/WebMake/Main.pm line 1732.
> ${IMGSIZE}: cannot find image file "images/cygwina.jpg" in "(html-cleaner)"

Image magick seems to require extensions (delegates) for each file type.
On Windows, they seem to be installed with it, but it's possible they 
are not on Linux. It's also possible that the jpeg and gif add ons are 
not installed automatically on any system due to copyright issues.

Robert

> 
> My output files go into .. (the source directory is a subdirectory of 
> the publish dir). ../images holds a number of images used throughout the 
> web site. For some reason only about 3 images are unable to be found. 
> These files are indeed in ../images and their permissions are the same 
> as the others.
> 
> Further investigation shows that this happens when the -F flag is used. 
> Also, it only occurs with files that are gifs and jpegs. pngs seem to 
> work correctly. I converted one image from png to gif, renamed the file 
> in the wmk content and webmake says it is not found.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this? Since I successfully debugged my previous 
> problem I am reasonably confident in figuring this one out but I just 
> wanted to run it by the list first.
> 
> Thanks.
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