Bug #18479: Bad Error Message: (libgd)

From: ewhite@stsci.edu Operating system: Doesn't Matter PHP version: 4.2.1 PHP Bug Type: *Compile Issues Bug description: Bad Error Message: (libgd) When you include gd support through configure, at some point it takes steps to actually detect, and make sure that libgd exists on your machine. It does separate checks, looking for a lib/libgd.(a|so), as well as a check for include/gd.h The problem is (which I ran into), that the error message for either of these checks failing is: configure: error: Unable to find libgd.(a|so) anywhere under 'blah' In my case, it WAS finding libgd.a, but it was complaining because it couldn't find gd.h It took me lots of hair pulling to finally figure out (via scanning the configure scripts) that it was actually complaining about not seeing gd.h where it expected it. The error message should EITHER specify which error occured (preferrable), or give a more generic error message of: "can't find libgd.a OR gd.h" -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=18479&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=18479&r=globals