I was installing the dev version of drupal 8 when it complained that the php extension gd was missing. AFAIK drupal also works with ImageMagick which I had installed, but just to be on the safe side I decided to install gd.
In BLFS 7.4 gd is listed on the php-5.5.3 page as optional under the graphics utilities and libraries with the rider "has bugs". The link took me to a fossies.org page which claimed that the file was missing and had been updated. Also, the file wasn't (isn't?) libgd but a perl interface to the library. The actual libgd is listed here https://bitbucket.org/libgd/gd-libgd/downloads I built libgd-2.1.0 on LFS 7.2 using cmake -i, make and make install and it built cleanly. I rebuilt php-5.5.3 with the gd extension and everything now works as expected. Perhaps the book could be updated to reflect this. Richard
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