On 2005.04.27, Dan Chak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone using nsgd? If so, has anyone gotten it to compile on OS X > using fink installed gd (either 1.8.4 or 2.0.23)? ... > ld: Undefined symbols: > _gdImageCreateFromGif > _gdImageGifPtr
GIF support in GD was removed in version 1.6 due to Unisys's LZW compression patent restrictions. According to the GD FAQ <http://www.boutell.com/gd/faq.html>: "Support for GIF was restored in gd 2.0.28 on July 21st, 2004." This followed the expiration of the Unisys patent worldwide <http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw>: "Unisys U.S. LZW Patent No. 4,558,302 expired on June 20, 2003, the counterpart patents in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expired on June 18, 2004, the Japanese counterpart patents expired on June 20, 2004 and the counterpart Canadian patent expired on July 7, 2004." ... While the nsgd module could be modified to be more "sensitive" to the version of gd it's building against and detect GIF support or not, at this point I think it's just better to recommend folks upgrade to the version of gd >= 2.0.28 which includes the GIF support and should continue to until some other patent-infringing issue comes up. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
