On the topic of gd support but a slightly different topic- I was using php 4.0.5
gd 1.8.3 patched for gif support (using libungif for libgif which I *think* is OK) FreeType 1.3.1 (compiled myself in /usr/local ) t1lib 1.3.1 (compiled myself in /usr/local ) I was using gd to draw pictures and write text on them with ttf fonts. I saw there were some new image functions in >= 4.0.6 so I grabbed the latest php I use a script to compile php same compile options, but t1lib gave a ptoblem because instead of looking in /usr/local/lib it tried to find the library in /usr/lib/.libs the configure option id --with-t1lib=/usr/local cd /usr/lib ln -s /usr/local/lib .libs took care of that but I really don't want to do that. Anyway, my big problem is with freetype. compiled I could draw and open images, but could not write ttf fonts on them. reading the ./configure -h I see that they CHANGED what the configure options mean. now --with-freetype=dir refers to freetype 2 Personally I think its insane to change the meaning of a configure option, but OK. So I downloaded FreeType 2 and compiled it and installed in /usr/local recompiled php Still can't use ttf to write on images. phpinfo() says I have FreeType linkage. But both ImageFtText and ImageTTFText fail to do anything. What is up with that? Perl is losing popularity because every time it updates scripts frequently need some rewriting (that and cpan will grab the latest module and then try to grab a newer perl instead of grabbing the module that works with the installed perl- grrrr) Hopefully php isn't going that route. Is this just a bug or has there been a major change? I'm going to have to find myself trying php 4.0.6 and possibly reverting back to 4.0.5 if I can't get this resolved. My compile options are here- http://macaddict4life.dhs.org/info.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
