Harry Bo wrote: > Hi all, > > I setup a Slackware 11.0 box with SS 6.5.0 for a friend of mine last > year. Now he'd like me to upgrade it to 7.0. "Fine", I said, thinking > that this would be fairly easy. I've done it myself very recently on > Slackware 12.0, with no significant problems. > > After over 2 hours of running around trying to satisfy various > dependancies and swearing at Perl, I'm still stumped by GD. > > When I try to start slimserver.pl (with any options or with none), it > immediately chokes and says I don't have the GD module installed. > Nothing is written to the logfile. > > It tells me to run "Bin/build-perl-modules.pl GD", which I do. This > then asks the usual questions and *immediately* says "All done!" and > exits. I've removed GD manually (deleting .pm files etc) and I've gone > through the CPAN make/make test/make install process repeatedly. > > Everytime I get to make test, GD fails all of the tests. I have recent > versions of cairo, pango, libX11, libXpm and more. I tried to manually > compile fontconfig (no Slackware package that I could find) and that > fails with a cryptic error too. > > Someone *please* tell me how to get GD working. This is driving me mad > :(
Do you have libgd installed before you install the perl module? R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
