Re: [cobalt-users] GD library with PNG and GIF support [was: PHP4.0.4pl1 + GD-Support (with ImageCreate for JPEG, PNG and GIF)]

[Jens Kristian Søgaard <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

> GIF *and* PNG support!?  Jens, in all of my years of using GD and
> configuring PHP with it, I had never even heard of such a library.  Many

Hehe, it can't be that many years, afterall PHP is a quite new thing :-)

> thanks for mentioning it.  FYI, I did a little searching per Jens' hint
and
> I found the patches (for 1.8.3) at
> http://rpms.arvin.dk/gd-with_gif/source/patches/ and
> http://www.rime.com.au/gd/ (for 1.8.4).  I'm going to try installing it
and
> recompiling PHP with it tonight.  I'll report back to the list with an

It works like a charm... I have been using it on RaQ2/3/4/XtR ever since
they removed GIF support from gd (a while ago...).

> update later.  There are even RPMs at the first URL, but I'll be
installing
> on a RaQ2 so I'll be doing it from source.

Why not just rebuild the source RPM ? - Much easier!

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