[mapserver-users] Variations in label behavior between Mapserver 3.6.1 on Windows 2000 vs. FreeBSD UNIX

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

This is caused most like;y by the fact that FreeBSD probably has 
freetype 2.0 loaded instead of freetype-1.3.1.  freetype 2.0 is very 
broken :( for mapserver needs.

-Steve W.

On 17 Sep 2002 at 11:07, gisweb at lmi.net wrote:

> 
> Hi List,
> 
> Any suggestions for how to resolve variations in label behavior
> between Mapserver 3.6.1 on Windows 2000 vs. FreeBSD UNIX?  The Windows
> 2000 version of Mapserver produces correct labels that match their
> streets' angles.  The FreeBSD version of Mapserver produces incorrect
> angles--flipped or mirrored or both?--as shown in the following web
> page:  http://www.giswebsite.com/gis/problems/
> 
> Possible reason... An email in the archive (from 2000) suggests that
> older versions of GD can cause this kind of behavior.  There are two
> versions of GD on the FreeBSD machine, both below the /usr/local
> directory.  One was installed in 1998, and the other July 17th of
> 2002.  The July 17th, 2002, version files are in /usr/local/include/*
> and the 1998 version files are in /usr/local/include/gd/*.  When I
> specify --with-gd=/usr/local/include in the configure instructions,
> the GD libraries stored in the /usr/local/lib directory are thought to
> be missing, so the configure fails.  The configure works when no
> directory path is specified.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Jonathan W. Lowe
>