RE: anomolous behavious in GD.pm

I can't be positive, but it may be related to the way the gd library was installed. Download both the GD.pm (CPAN) and the GD library from boutell's site. There is a patch file that comes with GD.pm that you must use on a virgin install dir of the GD lib BEFORE you run configure. The patch allows you to run configure jpeg and freestyle enable flags.

It could also be that you have one of the GD libs that doesn't support GIF's. Support for gif was dropped if I remember correctly.

The exact info is in the GD.pm README

coreolyn Duct tape devotee.

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RE: RE: anomolous behavious in GD.pm by d_i_r_t_y (Monk) on Aug 17, 2000 at 04:53 UTC
thanks for the reply... perhaps i was a little hasty/brief in the inital mail -- i have installed several different versions of GD.pm, libgd, libpng, freetype, and libtiff, all on several different linux kernels (2.0., 2.2.) and distros (debian slink, potato, mandrake 7.0, 7.1), and including the autoconf patching process you mentioned. even so, i am stumped. i have even written to lincoln stein, the author of GD, but hey, he's a busy man. guess i should try him again...	[reply]

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RE: RE: anomolous behavious in GD.pm
by d_i_r_t_y (Monk) on Aug 17, 2000 at 04:53 UTC

perhaps i was a little hasty/brief in the inital mail -- i have installed several different versions of GD.pm, libgd, libpng, freetype, and libtiff, all on several different linux kernels (2.0.*, 2.2.*) and distros (debian slink, potato, mandrake 7.0, 7.1), and including the autoconf patching process you mentioned.

even so, i am stumped. i have even written to lincoln stein, the author of GD, but hey, he's a busy man.

guess i should try him again...

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