Hello all:
I spent a few hours muckin' with this to get it right, figured someone else might benefit from my hair-tearing :-)
My configuration:
OS: FreeBSD
PHP version : 4.3.9
Desired GD version : 2.0.33 (from the GD site)
PHP 4.3.9 comes "bundled" with a GD 1.x version. My other webperson wanted to have GD 2.x to use some sort of photo library under PHP.
When I tried to use "--with-gd" I got the built-in version (1.x).
When I compiled gd-2.0.33 and did a "make install", then tried to do a
"--with-gd=/usr/local"
I got errors during the "./configure" step.
Turns out GD (at least 2.0.33) requires the
"iconv" library (libiconv).
So I compiled THAT from the net and used the "--with-iconv" option on the "./configure".
Still not enough. GD complained that it couldn't get to the ICONV library.
Final solution:
set "CFLAGS" to "-L/usr/local -liconv"
It was this latter step that finally worked !
Sigh. I assumed that "--with-iconv" automagically would do a "-liconv", but it didn't :-(
Hope this helps some other poor soul(s) out there.
Charlie
