Imagemagick jpeg decode delegate missing with OS X Homebrew install

Question

I recently converted from macports to homebrew and my previous macports Imagemagick install was working fine. I followed the homebrew instructions to chown /usr/local (somewhat

Answer 1

I just ran into this issue myself. While investigating I noticed symlinks to the jpeg jib were missing from /usr/local/lib. Can take of this with the following; just be sure to refer to the jpeg lib version in use, at the time of this post I am using 8c:

 ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/8c/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.8.dylib

 ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/8c/lib/libjpeg.a /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a

Then force homebrew to reinstall imagemagick:

 brew install --force imagemagick

Viola! Imagemagick will now show that a jpeg delegate is present.