More GD errors

[Norman Barker]

Sean Gillies wrote:

> On Oct 25, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Norman Barker wrote:
>
>> Sean Gillies wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 25, 2004, at 9:18 AM, Norman Barker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have switched boxes to a clean install of Red Hat FC2 to compile
>>>> MapServer (nightly build),
>>>> FC2 ships with the 2 series version of GD as required mapserver but
>>>> the
>>>> configure script still fails
>>>> to pick it up even when I use --with-gd=/usr/local
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone got a (fool-proof!) set of instructions for compiling
>>>> MapServer?  This GD error
>>>> is a hurdle I can't get over!
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Norman Barker
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Norman,
>>>
>>> If you provide more details, I'll try to help.  Your message gives us
>>> little to
>>> go on.  Specifically: MapServer version, the output of the configure
>>> script,
>>> and your actual configure command.
>>>
>>> I'm using a FC2-based distribution (KRUD) and it comes with GD 1.8.4
>>> in
>>> /usr/lib.
>>> Are you sure you have a GD 2?  If so, where are the libraries and
>>> include files
>>> found?
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sean Gillies
>>> sgillies at frii dot com
>>> http://users.frii.com/sgillies
>>>
>> I have to boxes one that is running Red Hat 9 and the other FC 2, the
>> errors are the same so I will describe both
>>
>> I building the nightly snapshot of MapServer so that I can use the WCS
>> functionality.
>>
>> I have a version of GD in /usr/lib, and version 2.x of GD in
>> usr/local/lib
>>
>> so running
>>
>> ./configure --with-wcs --with-gd=/usr/local --with-proj=/usr/bin
>>  --with-png=/usr/lib --with-wmsclient
>> --with-curl-config=/usr/bin/curl-config --with-wfsc
>> lient --with-ogr=/usr/bin/gdal-config --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config
>> --with-wfs
>>
>> (as kindly given by Newland Agbenowosi)
>>
>> gives the following error
>> "Could not find gd.h or libgd.a/libgd.so in /usr/local.  Make sure GD
>> 2.0.12 or higher is compiled before calling configure."
>>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Norman
>>
>
> Looking in our configure script, I'm not convinced that GD_LIBDIR is
> being
> properly set to /usr/local/lib so that AC_CHECK_LIB is checking that
> particular GD library for the necessary version.  Steve, can you
> confirm?
>
> On my system, I've removed the older 1.8.4 GD to prevent this kind of
> conflict, but we should probably work to improve our configure script.
> Not everyone has the option to clear out GD from /usr/lib.
>
> Norman, in the meanwhile, try setting the environment variable
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib before you configure.  This should insure
> that configure looks in the proper GD library for version checking.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> --
> Sean Gillies
> sgillies at frii dot com
> http://users.frii.com/sgillies
>
Thanks for the help, I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib as suggested
but I still get the error

 "Could not find gd.h or libgd.a/libgd.so in /usr/local.  Make sure GD
2.0.12 or higher is compiled before calling configure."

are there any other work arounds you can think of?

Thanks,

Norman