Can't install MapServer

[Alejandro Mejia Evertsz]

Thank you very much Manfred!
Now ./configure ends fine.

Danke! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Manfred Meier [mailto:m.meier at spiekermann.de] 
Sent: Viernes, 11 de Noviembre de 2005 10:47 a.m.
To: Alejandro Mejia Evertsz
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can't install MapServer

Hello,
I tried it on my SuSE and there was the same problem:

--with-gd=/usr/local/include

didn't do it, but

--with-gd=/usr/local

is ok. Perhaps it looks then for include and lib.

hope, that helps

Manfred


Alejandro Mejia Evertsz schrieb:
> Thanks Gavin and Stephen.
> I forgot to mention I'm running a FreeBSD 5.4 box.
> I followed your advises like this:
> 
> I did:
> 
> # whereis gd
> gd: /usr/ports/graphics/gd
> 
> But didn't seem logical to me, cause that location is where you 
> install the port from.
> Anyway, I tried:
> #./configure --with-gd=/usr/ports/graphics/gd
> 
> Got the same error.
> 
> I searched the files it says and got this locations:
> 
> # find / -name libgd.so
> /usr/local/lib/libgd.so
> 
> # find / -name libgd.a
> /usr/local/lib/libgd.a
> 
> # find / -name gd.h
> /usr/local/include/php/ext/gd/libgd/gd.h
> /usr/local/include/gd.h
> /usr/ports/graphics/graphviz/work/graphviz-2.2/gd/gd.h
> /usr/ports/print/dvipsk-tetex/work/tetex-src-3.0/libs/gd/gd.h
> /usr/ports/print/teTeX-base/work/tetex-src-3.0/libs/gd/gd.h
> /usr/ports/www/mod_php5/work/php-5.0.5/ext/gd/libgd/gd.h
> 
> Then I did a:
> #./configure --with-gd=/usr/local/include
> 
> But got the same error. Also got the error when I tried #./configure 
> --with-gd=/usr/local/lib
> 
> 
> I think I'm not an experienced user with Unix, and this task is going 
> to be harder for a non-unix user.
> But if anyone has something that could help... I'll be glad to hear 
> about it! ;)
> 
> Thanks to all.
> Cheers!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Gavin Simpson
> Sent: Viernes, 11 de Noviembre de 2005 09:26 a.m.
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can't install MapServer
> 
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 09:03 -0600, Alejandro Mejia Evertsz wrote:
> 
>>I'm a newbie on this unix stuff, but I know a little bit about ports, 
>>so I tried installing MapServer using ports, but it failed, so I 
>>decided to install it manually.
>>When I do the ./configure I get this error:
>> 
>>configure: error: Could not find gd.h or libgd.a/libgd.so in 
>>/usr/local.  Make sure GD 2.0.16 or higher is compiled before calling 
>>configure. You may also get this error if you didn't specify the 
>>appropriate location for one of GD's dependencies (freetype, libpng, 
>>libjpeg or libiconv).
>> 
>>But I know I have GD installed, and it's higher than the one
>>requiered:
>> 
>># pkg_info | grep gd
>>gd-2.0.33_3,1       A graphics library for fast creation of images
>>gdal-1.2.1_2        A translator library for raster geospatial data
>>formats
>>php5-gd-5.0.5_1     The gd shared extension for php
>>
>>I don't know what to do next...
>>Can somebody help me?
>> 
>>Thanks in advance.
>> 
>>Alejandro Mejia Evertsz
> 
> 
> If configure can't find gd itself then you need to help it out. try:
> 
> whereis gd
> 
> at in bash/shell for example, or search for gd.h, then specify the 
> location in the configure line, --with-gd= etc. I don't know your 
> system, but on linux you'd also have a gd-devel package that contains 
> the headers (gd.h) that you need to compile against. So even though 
> you have gd, you don't seem to have the devel headers installed, you can
just use gd.
> 
> HTH
> 
> G
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