Bug #17664: Compiling with GD > 1.6 cause GIF problems

From: davey@its-explosive.net Operating system: *nix PHP version: 4.2.1 PHP Bug Type: GD related Bug description: Compiling with GD > 1.6 cause GIF problems When you compile PHP with a higher GD that 1.6 you get errors, these are a result because of the fact that PHP still tries to setup for gif support which isn't there. A botched fix this is to comment out offending lines in gd.c, however a better fix would be for someone who knows more C than me to write in version checking (if possible) and just not run the GIF setup stuff... I would also imagine that if you are using 1.6 the PNG stuff would return errors a similar "fix" would work here too. This also works on 4.2.0 as gd.c is unchanged as far as I can tell... (please correct me if I am wrong..) You can find my hacked up gd.c at http://www.its-explosive.net/~davey/gd.c.works You can view my phpinfo() here http://www.its-explosive.net/~davey/info.php You can also see GD in action here: http://www.its-explosive.net/~davey/gd.test.php?do=jpg and http://www.its-explosive.net/~davey/gd.test.php?do=png source: http://www.its-explosive.net/~davey/gd.test.php?do=src just to prove it works... So you know, I used this fix on both 4.2.0 and now 4.2.1 on FreeBSD 4.4-R with the latest Apache 1.3.x, but you can see all that info in the phpinfo() :) If the PHP dev team (or anyone else) would like to see my .c file and see if they could actually clean out the .gif stuff altogether (as I heard Rasmus say it's impossible to check between 1.6 and later till 2.x) and supply two gd.c's like gd.gif.c and gd.c and then you call --enable-gif to use the .gif one instead of the gd.c one? something like that... Put simply... this is a bad fix that *does* work. I've heard alot of people complain about GD and this is the reason. - Davey -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17664&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17664&r=globals