More GD errors

[Gerry Creager n5jxs]

Steve Lime wrote:
> I'll have to get on my Redhat box at home to test this, but thought the
> problem was that the linker picks up the wrong shared library regardless
> if you tell it -L/usr/local/lib. This has been an ongoing problem for
> years when two versions of the same library are installed.
>
> Steve
>
>
>>>>Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> 10/25/2004 12:11:04 PM >>>
>
> 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.

Fromn some early morning discussions here, it looks like he's got 2
copies of libgd installed, and likely a confused linker.

Gerry
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