John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >>> .. >>> I have a fuzzy memory of the existence of some other simple image making >>> programs that can build gif (or maybe png?) from simple commands and data. >>> .. >> It might have been this >> GIF Images on the Fly, >> By Jimmy Ball on Sat, 1997-11-01 >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2411 >> >> but that (perl module GD.pm) requires libgda (etc), and you're back to >> something big, I guess. >> >> Hmmm, that's what mrtg uses, too, I believe. Maybe webalizer, too? > > On my debian(etch) system: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232K 2006-09-10 16:31 /usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.33 > > That is build without XPM suport, but it does have jpeg, freetype, and > png support. You could probably pare that down more if you removed > support that you did not need. >
Ohhh, that sounds like a promising pathway. If you're just building the image file, and don't have to render it, then you shouldn't need any steenkin' X stuff, eh? Do you maybe use mrtg (or GD.pm or ..) on that system? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
