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

[Steve Lime]

Ugh! What versions of GD/Freetype on each platform?

>>> <gisweb at lmi.net> 09/17/02 01:07PM >>>

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