Undefined symbol when compiling mapscript for Perl

[Don Silvia]

That did the trick!  Thanks, Steve.

Don Silvia

At 09:30 AM Monday 3/5/2001, Stephen Lime wrote:
>Many linux boxes come with GD-1.3 installed by default. I know this is the 
>case on RedHat
>since that's what I develop with at home. I suspect that there are 
>conflicting libraries are
>you're system. One fix is to move any GD libs in /usr/local/lib or 
>/usr/lib to someplace else
>(temporarily). Re-run configure and build the mapserver and mapscript. 
>Then replace the
>moved libs. That should work and fix things.
>
>Steve
>
>Stephen Lime
>Internet Applications Analyst
>
>Minnesota DNR
>500 Lafayette Road
>St. Paul, MN 55155
>651-297-2937
>
> >>> Don Silvia <don at dlsilvia.ne.mediaone.net> 03/04/01 09:09AM >>>
>Hi,
>
>I'm having a problem compiling mapscript for Perl.  I'm seeing the same
>problem as described by Chris Fuhrman in a previous post:
>
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/majordom_lists/archives/mapserver-users/html/0003/msg00012.html 
>
>
>I've tried this with both versions 3.4 and 3.3.011.  I can compile the
>mapserv CGI and it works fine.  I compile mapscript for Perl with no
>errors, but when I try to run one of the example programs, I get an error
>about undefined symbol: gdImageCreateFromGif:
>
>[don at ratbert progdev]$ dump.pl -file=doq_idx
>Can't load
>'/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/mapscript/mapscript.so'
>for module mapscript:
>/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux/auto/mapscript/mapscript.so:
>undefined symbol: gdImageCreateFromGif at
>/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 200.
>
>Like Chris, I'm using the GD 1.2 version that comes with mapserver.  Unlike
>him, however, I don't have any NFS mounts involved.  I'm building this on
>Red Hat 6.2.
>
>I notice that the Makefile has '-DUSE_GD_1_3' in it, and when compiling the
>mapserv CGI, I get a warning: mapraster.c:548: warning: implicit
>declaration of function `gdImageCreateFromGif'.  But as I said, the CGI
>works fine.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Don Silvia