When will we get the new GD with GIF support?

[AaronB]

With the release of 2.0.28 of GD which has GIF support added back in, when will it be available as in install on cpanel? Or does it have to come with PHP, meaning that they have to release a new 4.x version?

[Sinewy]

cPanel compiles GD using the bundled library. at the moment the bundled one is 2.0.23

If you wish to use 2.0.28 this is what you need to do:

cd /home/cpapachebuild/buildapache
nano buildscript

whenever you see "--with-gd" replace it with "--with-gd=/usr"

now exit nano by hitting ctrl + x

wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.28.tar.gz
tar zxf gd-2.0.28.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.28
rm -fr config.cache
./configure --prefix=/usr
make clean
make libgd.a
make
cp -fv .libs/libgd.a .
make install

cd /home/cpapachebuild/buildapache
./buildscript

[SarcNBit]

I think I will wait, but thank you for the HOWTO

[Nox]

The procedure Sinewy outlines above doesn't seem to work on my Fedora Core 1 box. Every time I try to make gdlib.a it complains with a 'No target to make: gdlib.a' message.

Does anyone else know any means of getting GD 2.0.28 into the CPanel Apache compile?

The guys at CPanel should REALLY update the bundled version, 2.0.28 is a landmark release since it finally supports GIF output.

[patchwork]

The procedure Sinewy outlines above doesn't seem to work on my Fedora Core 1 box. Every time I try to make gdlib.a it complains with a 'No target to make: gdlib.a' message.

Does anyone else know any means of getting GD 2.0.28 into the CPanel Apache compile?

The guys at CPanel should REALLY update the bundled version, 2.0.28 is a landmark release since it finally supports GIF output.

I just tried it on CentOS and it didn't work, I also get an error when I run "make libgd.a"

Pete

[SarcNBit]

Maybe people posting HOWTOs should start including the cPanel/OS/Kernel versions and notes about whether the process has been tested and any special (not including in the default cPanel/OS/Kernel configuration) requirements.

[infronthost]

Sucessful Update of GD 2.0.28 on WHM/CPanel V9.7.7 R15 - Redhat Enterprise

Steps Involved.

1) Placed gd-2.0.28.tar.gz in /usr/local and Expanded the archive as per the How-To Above
2) Replaced all occurences of /usr in the How-To with /usr/local

I followed the rest of the steps, I did receive an error on "make libgd.a" but continued anyway and it installed perfectly.

Thanks Sinewy for the How-To

Regards,
Michael

[AbeFroman]

THanks for the info, you rule!

cp -fv .libs/libgd.a .

One question, why do you need to put libgd.a on level higher?

[AbeFroman]

Its easiest just to run ./configure make and make install, the cpanel apache build script sucks and is too slow

These 12 commands work perfectly:
wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.28.tar.gz
tar -xzvf gd-2.0.28.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.28
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
cd /home/cpphpbuild/php-4.3.8
'./configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--with-curl' '--with-dom' '--with-dom-xslt' '--with-dom-exslt' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd=/usr/local' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-kerberos' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-mcrypt' '--with-mhash' '--with-ming=../ming-0.2a' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysql' '--with-openssl' '--enable-discard-path' '--with-pear' '--with-pspell' '--enable-xslt' '--with-xslt-sablot' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-ttf' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-wddx' '--with-zlib'
make
make install
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start

[AbeFroman]

Your php info file will read:
gd
GD Support enabled
GD Version 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled

"GIF Create Support enabled" means it GD 2.0.28

[brentp]

I'll try to code a perl script that does it tonight