Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Lester Caine
Lars Nielsen wrote: Should I go for Imagemagick instead? or something diferent? Imagemagick either via MagickWand or Imagick is a more complete library that most good frameworks provide as an alternative. GD is OK if you can work with the more limited range of formats that it provides? Quic

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:16 PM, sean finney wrote: > Furthermore AIUI it's semi-moot in the latest debian/ubuntu packages as > Pierre has added some form of compat layer (not sure why that was done > as opposed to the below, but... *shrug*...). We discussed that and the reasons have been d

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread sean finney
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 07:34:28PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > i do now know from where what source is, but i use the packages from > fedora for my own php-builds and gd is wroking like a charme > > so if this doe snot work on debian THEY make something wrong TTBOMK (i.e. there have not been an

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2011 19:16, schrieb sean finney: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 05:56:10PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> distributions normally use their libraries for compiling software >> and never static bits - but debian is known to have way too old >> libraries most of the time > > You know, given tha

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread sean finney
Hi, On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 05:56:10PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 02.10.2011 17:28, schrieb Lars Nielsen: > no - complain to debian! Or don't bother complaining at all, it's already been discussed ad naseum. Furthermore AIUI it's semi-moot in the latest debian/ubuntu packages as Pierre has

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] config.m4 possibly undefined macro

2011-10-02 Thread Laruence
Hi: in that case, you can change name to whatever except ***ac. thanks 2011/10/2 Bertrand Mansion : > If I ignore it and run ./configure --with-utrac > I get : > >    config.status: error: cannot find input file: config.h.in > > I don't get this error if I use another name. > So it doesn't

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.10.2011 17:28, schrieb Lars Nielsen: > Thanks Pierre, > > I have been using GD with Drupal and with the standard gd of either php > or debian/ubuntu Drupal is complaining that GD is not functional. > > So I just have to compile and install the version from bitbucket? no - complain to deb

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Pierre Joye
Debian or Ubuntu (they share the same base) uses the external libraries. Some old versions of these distributions do not have the newest code and some GD functions available in the php's gd may not be available. There is already a bug report there about it. If you can compile it I would suggest to

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Lars Nielsen
Thanks Pierre, I have been using GD with Drupal and with the standard gd of either php or debian/ubuntu Drupal is complaining that GD is not functional. So I just have to compile and install the version from bitbucket? Regards Lars søn, 02 10 2011 kl. 17:25 +0200, skrev Pierre Joye: > hi, > > I

Re: [PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, It is not deprecated, it is maintained, in and outside php as well. Which package are you referring to? bitbucket has the libgd's standalone version and php's src has its bundled version, which is the recommended one to use with php. Cheers, On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Lars Nielsen wro

[PHP-DEV] GD Lib for PHP?

2011-10-02 Thread Lars Nielsen
Hi, I am not sure if this should go to the general list or here. What is happening to the "GDlib" graphics library? Is it deprecated? I have found a package on google-code which can be compiled on ubuntu/debian but it seems that it has not been updated for years? What is the approach to take he

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] config.m4 possibly undefined macro

2011-10-02 Thread Bertrand Mansion
If I ignore it and run ./configure --with-utrac I get : config.status: error: cannot find input file: config.h.in I don't get this error if I use another name. So it doesn't seem so safe to ignore this warning after all :) Le 2 oct. 2011 à 15:37, Laruence a écrit : > Hi: >this warning c

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] config.m4 possibly undefined macro

2011-10-02 Thread Laruence
Hi: this warning can be ignored safely, it seems a bug of php autoconf, maybe someone can verify this ? in the PHP_NEW_EXTENSION defination, I comment out the case statement of host_alias (this is also be down in PHP_SHARED_MODULE, so I think it might be a unecessary codes), then f