enable truetype string function in gd

Hi! I try to get the above mentioned to work with the 4.0.6 release on Linux! But even though I provide the configure script with the --enable-gd-native-ttf switch, it reports that the feature is a no go ./configure --enable-modules=so --without-mysql --with-pgsql=/usr/local \ --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-raima --with-gd=/usr/local \ --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/include/freetype2 --enable-gd-native-ttf \ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr : checking whether to include GD support... yes checking whether to enable truetype string function in gd... no <- This really bugs me!! Never the less... We enable it anyway checking for the location of libjpeg... yes checking for jpeg_read_header in -ljpeg... (cached) yes checking for the location of libpng... yes checking for png_info_init in -lpng... (cached) yes checking for the location of libXpm... yes checking for XpmFreeXpmImage in -lXpm... (cached) yes checking for freetype(2)... yes checking whether to include include FreeType 1.x support... no checking whether to include T1lib support... no checking for gdImageString16 in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImagePaletteCopy in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateFromPng in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateFromGif in -lgd... (cached) no checking for gdImageWBMP in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateFromJpeg in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateFromXpm in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageCreateTrueColor in -lgd... (cached) no checking for gdImageSetTile in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageSetBrush in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageStringFTEx in -lgd... (cached) no checking for gdImageColorClosestHWB in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageColorResolve in -lgd... (cached) yes checking for gdImageGifCtx in -lgd... (cached) no : The "Never the less..." line comes from me trying to force the definition of USE_GD_IMGSTRTTF in ext/gd/config.m4... And still it doesn't work CAAARP!!! (I simply altered = "yes" to != "yes") Any thoughts?? /T.