Richard Melville wrote: > I was installing the dev version of drupal 8 when it complained that the > php extension gd was missing. AFAIK drupal also works with ImageMagick > which I had installed, but just to be on the safe side I decided to install > gd. > > In BLFS 7.4 gd is listed on the php-5.5.3 page as optional under the > graphics utilities and libraries with the rider "has bugs". The link took > me to a fossies.org page which claimed that the file was missing and had > been updated. Also, the file wasn't (isn't?) libgd but a perl interface to > the library. The actual libgd is listed here > https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/downloads > > I built libgd-2.1.0 on LFS 7.2 using cmake -i, make and make install and it > built cleanly. I rebuilt php-5.5.3 with the gd extension and everything > now works as expected. Perhaps the book could be updated to reflect this.
Thanks for the report. I've updated the book to reflect the info above. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
