Re: [cobalt-users] RE RAQ4 PKG PHP 4.0.6 with new GD

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Robinson wrote:

> Can someone give me an example of any software 'routinely' found on a
> RAQ4 that may incur this problem..

There's no reason to install the "GD" package at this time...

Probably nothing from Cobalt will break, but any software you may have
installed that actually creates ".gif" files.  This is mostly a
"political" issue, because of CompuServe's ownership of the patent used
in .gif files.  But you'll find Linux programmers can be extremely
political <wry grin>.

For example, installing the "GD" package may very well break webalizer,
which creates .gif files using the GD library.

See this note at "http://www.webalizer.org/faq.html":

> 4. I get 'libgd not found' errors when compiling?
> 
> The Webalizer uses the gd graphics library written by Tom Boutell
> for producing it's inline graphics. If you don't have this library
> or have it installed correctly, you will get this error. The
> Webalizer expects this library to be in the standard library path
> (ie: /usr/lib), so if you have it someplace else, you need to add
> an '-L[path]' flag to CFLAGS in the Makefile. If you don't have the
> library, get it at www.boutell.com/gd/. 

The newest webalizer on their site (version 2.01) says it supports .png
files (the new standard, at least for us Linux-ites), but I wouldn't
risk it if you use webalizer unless you want to do a lot "stuff" or lose
the webalizer functionality.

Jeff
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