Thank you for the suggestion. I think we've reached consensus on it. Can I get the question migrated to unix/linux or should I just repost it there?

@lain: Understood, I appreciate your thoughts on this

Thanks. I'm solving a sysadmin problem, but I can also see how SO would make sense. However if that was the reason for moderation, shouldn't the question better be migrated as was done with e.g. this question vs locked & deleted?

Imho it's a general question about how to resolve compiling issues in a smarter way. It's illustrated with exact errors of a real life example. As for why I'm packaging this static, I'm not sure if that's relevant, but I'm looking to offer a new version of Imagemagick to my customers and make it an opt-in. Otherwise I would break backwards compatibility for users of the current version. I figured creating all-in-one statics would allow me to do so, without introducing new servers or e.g. Docker.