Hi fellow monks! I just started to use GD.pm. I wrote this little script to check a GIF's dimensions 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use GD;
use File::Find;

my $file= shift;
open(my $imgFile, '<',  $file ) or die "Can't read $file: $!\n";
binmode $imgFile;
my $img= newFromGif GD::Image( $imgFile );
close($imgFile);
die "Didn't work" unless defined $img;
my ($w, $h)= $img->getBounds();
print $file,": ",$w," x ",$h,"\n";

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Unfortunately it fails. Replacing Gif with Png for a png image works fine.

Gif is said to be supported:
gdlib-config --features
GD_XPM GD_JPEG GD_FONTCONFIG GD_FREETYPE GD_PNG GD_GIF
What else can I check to find out what's going wrong here?

Update: Should anyone else stumble across this: I was using gd2 from fink and also gd-pm586 from there. Now I removed gd-pm586 and made my own from CPAN source and it worked!

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In reply to Solved: GD.pm fails with GIF by Skeeve

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