GD.pm install woes

I've been trying to install GD.pm for a few days now, but to no avail.

I am using Fedora Core 2 with a P4 system.

I have installed libgd 2.0.28, Free Type 2.1.9, libpng 1.2.7, and
jpeg-6b. All were installed from source. I gave each it's own
directory under /usr/local/. There were no errors during the install
of any of them. I can use the scripts that get put into the bin
directory by libgd (such as webpng) so I know libgd is working.

My problem arrises when installing GD.pm. I am attempting to install
GD.pm 2.16. I am using the following args with Makefile.PL, although I
have tried many other variations (such as without "/lib" at the end of
the paths):

perl Makefile.PL -lib_gd_path /usr/local/gd/lib -lib_png_path
/usr/local/libpng/lib -lib_jpeg_path /usr/local/jpeg/lib -lib_ft_path
/usr/local/freetype2/lib -options "GD_JPEG,GD_FREETYPE,GD_PNG,GD_GIF"

This gives me the following output:


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Configuring for libgd version 2.0.28.
Included Features:          GD_JPEG,GD_FREETYPE,GD_PNG,GD_GIF
GD library used from:       /usr/local/gd/lib
FreeType library used from: /usr/local/freetype2/lib
PNG library used from:      /usr/local/libpng/lib
JPEG library used from:      /usr/local/jpeg/lib

If you experience compile problems, please check the @INC, @LIBPATH
and @LIBS
arrays defined in Makefile.PL and manually adjust, if necessary.

Writing Makefile for GD
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Ok, so far so good! I then run make...


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gcc -c  -I/usr/local/jpeg/lib/include -I/usr/local/libpng/lib/include
-I/usr/local/freetype2/lib/include -I/usr/local/include -D_REENTRANT
-D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686
-DVERSION=\"2.16\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.16\" -fPIC
"-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE"  -DHAVE_JPEG
-DHAVE_FT -DHAVE_GIF GD.c
Running Mkbootstrap for GD ()
chmod 644 GD.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
gcc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib GD.o  -o blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
-L/usr/local/freetype2/lib -L/usr/local/libpng/lib
-L/usr/local/jpeg/lib -L/usr/local/lib -ljpeg -lfreetype -lpng -lz -lm
-lgd
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so
cp GD.bs blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.bs
Manifying blib/man3/GD::Polyline.3pm
Manifying blib/man3/GD.3pm
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Still no problems that I can see. However, make test blows up...


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PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/GD..........Can't load './blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD:
[libgd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line
229.
] at t/GD.t line 13
Compilation failed in require at t/GD.t line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/GD.t line 13.
t/GD..........dubious
Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Scalar found where operator expected at (eval 152) line 1, near "'int'
$__val"
(Missing operator before   $__val?)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-10
Failed 10/10 tests, 0.00% okay
t/Polyline....Can't load
'/home/x3v0/gt/install/GD-2.16/blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD:
[libgd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line
229.
] at /home/x3v0/gt/install/GD-2.16/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 49
Compilation failed in require at
/home/x3v0/gt/install/GD-2.16/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 49.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/home/x3v0/gt/install/GD-2.16/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 49.
Compilation failed in require at t/Polyline.t line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/Polyline.t line 10.
t/Polyline....dubious
Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED test 1
Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
t/GD.t        255 65280    10   19 190.00%  1-10
t/Polyline.t  255 65280     1    2 200.00%  1
Failed 2/2 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 11/11 subtests failed, 0.00%
okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
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I'm not sure exactly what is wrong, but it looks like it can't find
libgd.so.2. Any ideas on what is going on and how to fix this error?

Thanks,
Xevo

Xevo wrote:

> I've been trying to install GD.pm for a few days now, but to no avail.
>
> I am using Fedora Core 2 with a P4 system.
>
> I have installed libgd 2.0.28, Free Type 2.1.9, libpng 1.2.7, and
> jpeg-6b. All were installed from source. I gave each it's own
> directory under /usr/local/. There were no errors during the install
> of any of them. I can use the scripts that get put into the bin
> directory by libgd (such as webpng) so I know libgd is working.
>

I've had problem before too. Try an earlier version. 1.18 has gif suport.

gtoomey

Xevo <x3v0-usenet@yahoo.com> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> I've been trying to install GD.pm for a few days now, but to no avail.
>
> I am using Fedora Core 2 with a P4 system.

I did this recently with GD 2.16 on OS X.

> I have installed libgd 2.0.28, Free Type 2.1.9, libpng 1.2.7, and
> jpeg-6b. All were installed from source. I gave each it's own
> directory under /usr/local/. There were no errors during the install
> of any of them. I can use the scripts that get put into the bin
> directory by libgd (such as webpng) so I know libgd is working.

I had all the auxiliary libs (no Free Type here) installed into
standard locations (/usr/local/lib/).  GD installed smoothly.

[snip symptoms]

Anno

Quoth x3v0-usenet@yahoo.com (Xevo):
> I've been trying to install GD.pm for a few days now, but to no avail.
>
> I'm not sure exactly what is wrong, but it looks like it can't find
> libgd.so.2. Any ideas on what is going on and how to fix this error?

Try adding /usr/local/gd/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Ben

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Ben Morrow <usenet@morrow.me.uk> wrote in message news:<7opc52-v86.ln1@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.
org>...
> Quoth x3v0-usenet@yahoo.com (Xevo): 
>
> Try adding /usr/local/gd/lib to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>
> Ben

Thank you. Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH helped a lot. I am now getting a
different, less verbose error when doing "make test TEST_VERBOSE=1".
It says it failed test 4. I don't know what test 4 is, so I'm not sure
where to go from here. As before, ./configure and make gave no errors.



PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(1, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/GD..........1..10
ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
not ok 4
ok 5
ok 6
ok 7
ok 8 # Skip, FreeType changes too frequently to be testable
ok 9 # Skip, no XPM support
not ok 10
FAILED tests 4, 10
Failed 2/10 tests, 80.00% okay (less 2 skipped tests: 6 okay,
60.00%)
t/Polyline....1..1
# Running under perl version 5.008003 for linux
# Current time local: Sun Oct 31 18:06:25 2004
# Current time GMT:   Sun Oct 31 23:06:25 2004
# Using Test.pm version 1.24
ok 1
ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
t/GD.t                    10    2  20.00%  4 10
2 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/2 test scripts, 50.00% okay. 2/11 subtests failed, 81.82%
okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255