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.

In reply to RE: anomolous behavious in GD.pm by coreolyn
in thread anomolous behavious in GD.pm by d_i_r_t_y

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