Ugh. Sorry to waste everyone's time. Looks like I probably need a newer version of libgd installed.

Will try to get a newer version of libgd (the C library) built and installed in my own ~/opt and then try building/installing GD again.

Thanks for investigating, Rob.

In the meantime, regarding installing your own modules into your own local ~/perllib directory: is it supposed to be 

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perllib # or
perl Makefile.PL LIB=/home/me/perllib    # ?

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In perlmodinstall it says to use PREFIX, but the Camel book (in the CPAN chapter) mentions LIB, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLBIN, and INSTALLSCRIPT. In the Cookbook, in item 12.21, I believe it says to use LIB, and that PREFIX is for when you've got your own Perl installed somewhere in /home/you.

In reply to Re^2: help installing GD and GD::Graph locally by j3
in thread help installing GD and GD::Graph locally by j3

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