MapServer incompatibility with RHEL4/CE NTOS4.2

[Doyon, Jean-Francois]

As mentionned in the initial post, tried a wide variety of combinations of
libraries and mapserver :)

At the root though, a given combination of mapserver/libs works on RH 7.3,
the exact same combination on CentOS doesn't.

(GD 2.0.33 with FreeType 2.0.9 and MapServer 4.8.1).

I suppose it is possible GD or FreeType have problems on CentOS, but I'm
hoping/guessing google would've told me about it by now, I've had no luck
trying to find out about similar problems, they're hard to describe in a
search engine :)

I'm going ot try taking the mapserver from RH7.3 and "chrooting" it on
CentOS, and see how that works, I'll let you know :)

J.F.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lowell.Filak [mailto:lfilak at medinaco.org] 
Sent: March 3, 2006 1:33 PM
To: Doyon, Jean-Francois
Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer incompatibility with RHEL4/CE
NTOS4.2

Doyon, Jean-Francois writes: 

> Correct, I never suspected the compiler.  I suspect the mapserver 
> code, for some reason, isn't interacting properly with glibc ...
> 
> I'm going to try and explore the possibility of chrooting mapserver 
> and linking it against a separate older glibc.  CentOS comes with 
> glibc 2.3.4 ... If I can install/compile link mapserver and it's 
> dependencies on CentOS against glibc 2.2.5 (the version from RH 7.3) 
> ... Then that might give us a clue as to what the problem is.  That's 
> a fair emount of work though, so I'm going to revert back to my older 
> servers for now :(

J.F., 

Sorry, typo. How do you know it's not the gd libs on the RHEL box causing
the problem (or even ft)? Is the version of gd on the 7.3 box the same as
the CentOS box? 

Lowell