Re: perl GD - can find gd.h

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Paul Cantalupo schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday Dave Korn helped me get my gcc compiler working. Now I'm
> running into a new issue when trying to compile the Perl GD module.
> Here is the output:
>
>     (1008) sirius:~/downloads/GD-2.44 $ perl Makefile.PL
>     Notice: Type perl Makefile.PL -h for command-line option summary.
>
>     Configuring for libgd version 2.0.36.
>     Checking for stray libgd header files...
>
>     ** WARNING: found gd.h header file in
> /usr/include/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../.
>     ./..gd.h, but it is expected at /usr/include/gd.h. This may cause
> compile errors
>     ! **
>     ** Possible problems found **
>
>     Included Features:          GD_XPM GD_JPEG GD_FONTCONFIG
> GD_FREETYPE GD_PNG GD_G
>     IF GD_GIFANIM GD_OPENPOLYGON GD_UNCLOSEDPOLY GD_ANIMGIF GD_FTCIRCLE
> VERSION_33
>     GD library used from:       /usr
>     Writing Makefile for GD
>
> Note how it says my gd.h header file was not found in
> /usr/include/gd.h and that it was found in /usr/include/gcc/...  But
> oddly enough, I don't even have a /usr/include/gcc/ directory and gd.h
> is in fact found in /usr/include on my system. See output below:
>
>     (1010) sirius:~/downloads/GD-2.44 $ ls -l /usr/include/gd.h
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 LUPEY Administrators 32609 2009-09-15 06:14 /usr/include/gd.h
>
>     (1011) sirius:~/downloads/GD-2.44 $ ls /usr/include/gcc
>     ls: cannot access /usr/include/gcc: No such file or directory
>
>
> What is going on here? Is this a problem with my cygwin/gcc
> installation or a GD problem? Thank you for your guidance,

Cannot reproduce.
You need libgd-devel of course.
Then perl Makefile.PL && make works fine for me.

make test fails at test 10, but this error is bogus.
It's comparing the generated jpeg to a stored jpeg, the generated jpeg 
is perfectly fine.
make install is fine.
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