Re: Using PDFlib with GD as PECL package
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:10:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Using PDFlib with GD as PECL package | ||
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Rainer Schaaf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since PDFlib moved to PECL a build fails if one tries to build PDFlib
> with GD support.
>
> I spoke with some guys at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe about this problem,
> but without a solution till now. So I wanted to ask here for ideas on
> how to handle this.
>
> I know two things to work around this in the moment, but none of them
> is perfect:
>
> - remove GD support in pdf.c by default.
> - document (where?) that one has to put the gd headerfiles to
> /usr/include/php before building the pdflib pecl package.
PHP should do that on make install, in case the bundled library is used.
That's IMO the preferred way and requires no updates to documentation or
other hacks.
Derick