The problem: PHP was compiled together with freetype version 2, gd, and several other extensions. It compiled and installed, but calls to freetype from PHP failed. Solution: Use freetype version 1! I note also that the freetype demos that required X11 also did not work on the Sun workstation, but functioned perfectly well on Linux. Perhaps there is a connection. The freetype test binaries that come with freetype version 1 had no such problem on Solaris. (I did not install apache and gd on Linux, so I cannot say how it all works together on any platform except Solaris 8.) Cheers, Mike Dowling
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