Why do I get a ‘file not recognized: File truncated’ error when installing imagick?

Symptoms

When installing imagick from Pecl, you receive an error "file not recognized: File truncated"

Description 

Pecl produces the following  error when trying to install imagick.

file not recognized: File truncated 
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status 
make: *** [imagick.la] Error 1 
ERROR: `make' failed

This is due to a module returning the wrong information causing the process to exit.

Workaround

Reinstall the RPM with yum.

yum remove ImageMagick

yum install ImageMagick ImageMagick-c++ ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick-c++-devel ImageMagick-perl