More GD errors

[Sean Gillies]

On Oct 25, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Norman Barker wrote:

> 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
>

Norman,

My last resort, on a system where I absolutely could not remove the GD
in /usr/lib or modify ld.so.conf, was to hack the configure script so
that it did not check for a GD version.

Sean


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