Ok, I'm on version 6.2.4

That'll teach me not to install from sudo apt-get install


ok
compiled
ran the thing to test and i get an error

dr-spangle@dr-spangle-laptop:~/Desktop/ImageMagick-6.4.7-10$ /usr/local/bin/convert logo: logo.gif
/usr/local/bin/convert: error while loading shared libraries: libMagickCore.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory