symbol files and PIXMAP causing GD_ERROR

[Sean O'Hagan]

Hello list:

We recently migrated our mapping server from NT to FreeBSD. Mapserver and
mapscript are working fine so far except for additions I had made to the
symbol files. These additions had been working for a while on the NT system,
but I had to remove them to get mapserver to work on FreeBSD. I'm sure it's
something fairly simple, but I've tried almost every configuration in the
symbol file to no avail. These are the nefarious lines (as soon as they're
removed, everything works again):

from marker.sym:
...
Symbol
Name 'mvmarker'
Type PIXMAP
Image 'mvmarker.gif'   # (I've tried with no quotes, double quotes,
./mvmarker.gif)
Transparent 1  # (I've tried commenting this out)
END
...

and this is my very simple test file:

use mapscript;

$map = new mapObj('./test.map');
print "Error: $mapscript::ms_error->{code}\n";

exit;

I get error code 8, ie. GD_ERROR.

Thanks for your help,
Sean O'Hagan

Metavera Solutions, Inc.
192 Spadina Ave., Suite 405
Toronto, ON
M5T 2C2
Tel: (416) 504-8351
Fax: (416) 364-2636
Email: seano at metavera.com
Fallback email: smohagan at yahoo.com