BUG #8952

Hi there, I noticed your bug id #8952 was a problem that I personally had, and one that i find usually pops up from time to time (read every release so far :)... I'm not much of a programmer, but I do know what's happening here... gcc -funsigned-char -I/usr/local/installs/web_stuff/php-4.0.4pl1 -I/usr/local/installs/web_stuff/php-4.0.4pl1/main -I/usr/local/installs/web_ stuff/php-4.0.4pl1/main -I/usr/local/installs/web_stuff/php-4.0.4pl1/Zend -I/usr/local/installs/web_ stuff/php-4.0.4pl1/Zend -I/usr/local/installs/web_stuff/php-4.0.4pl1/TSRM -I/usr/local/installs/web_stuff/php-4.0.4pl1/TSRM -I/usr/local/installs/web_ stuff/php-4.0.4pl1 -DUSE_EXPAT -I./lib/expat-lite -DNO_DL_NEEDED ./apaci -o httpd buildmark.o modules.o modules/standard/libstandard.a modules/php4/libphp4.a main/libmain.a ./os/unix/libos.a ap/libap.a lib/expat-lite/libexpat.a -L/usr/local/installs/web_stuff/libpng-1.07/ -lpng -R/usr/local//lib -R/usr/ local/lib -R/usr/local/lib/mysql -R/usr/local/pgsql//lib -rdynamic -L/usr/local//lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/pgsql//lib -Lmodules/php4 -L../modules/p hp4 -L../../modules/php4 -lmodphp4 -lpam -lpq -lmysqlclient -lttf -lpng -lz -l gd -ljpeg -lm -lcrypt -L/usr/local//lib -ljpeg -lcrypt You see the part (towards the end) where the linked libraries are specified: "-lttf -lpng -lz -lgd" What they are doing wrong is doing the "-lttf -lpng" before the "-lgd" - now i'm not sure why that doesn't work (or why it keeps on happening, and nobody fixes it), but i know it gives me problems *everytime* i try and compile the gd libraries... :( anyhow, a hacked up solution that an extreme non-programmer like me uses to make the compile work with the gd libraries is to just do a search and replace on the apache Makefiles, to put things in the right order... ( do this *AFTER* the final apache configure, and *BEFORE* you start compiling apache ) perl -pi -e 's{(-lttf -lpng)(.+)(-lgd)}{$3$2$1}g;' \ Makefile */Makefile */*/Makefile */*/*/Makefile */*/*/*/Makefile Works a charm for me... Ken.