Trouble installing ImageMagick on OS X 10.7.2

Oct 8, 2012

I wanted to use the node-imagemagick library but was getting weird error messages coming from the `identify` binary although I had installed ImageMagick through brew (brew install imagemagick).

I fixed it by grabbing the latest libfreetype from another brew package and linking it to the old library:

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