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

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