Setting up

[Lyndon Zimmermann]

Greetings all,

Well I'm making progress on getting MapServer and some examples going.
My UNIX skills are limited (I'm doing this under RedHat 7.0) and finally
discovered  the trick in running the configure and install, ie gunzip
and untar, configure and make as user, then "make install" as root. 
None of the doco seems to mention these little tricks.

I still can't get the MapServer Demo to work however.  I just get
"loadSymbol(): GD library error" on initialise.  I'm still using gd1.2
and the reference.gif is still a gif.

I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to, but I copied the examples 1 to 4
across to my server and managed to get examples 1 and 2 working
(hooray!).  Examples 3 and 4 are a little more troublesome.  After
working out how to start them, I got "loadlabel(): Unknown identifier. 
Keyword FONT is not valid without TrueType font support" for both. I
thought I'd installed Freetype-1.3.1 (though I can't find any .ttf files
anywhere) When I rem'd out FONT in their respective .map files I got
"getSymbol(): Incorrect symbol. (12):(19) ".

I'm documenting the process and file structure and will make them
available when I have an operating system (or sooner if requested).  

Any advice on my current difficulties would be appreciated.

Lyndon Zimmermann
Adelaide, Australia