Re: building GD using a locally-installed libgd (old libgd also present on system)


<jmg3000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm trying to build GD, but have it use a libgd (Boutell's C library)
that I built in my own ~/opt directory. The problem is, there's also an
older libgd installed on the system (2.0.9 I think), but I don't have
root access and so cannot remove this older version. I want GD to
eventually get installed into ~/perllib.

I've tried "perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perllib", but
unfortunately, it's finding the gd.h in /usr/include (the old one)
instead of /home/me/opt/include (the current one), and it's causing the
build to fail.

How can I get GD to build correctly using my own locally-installed
libgd on a system that also has an older libgd present?


Probably easiest to just do some appropriate harcoding in the Makefile.PL.
(This is what I do on Win32, and it works for me.)

Find the'LIBS' and 'INC' entries in the WriteMakefile() section of said
Makefile.PL and change them to something like:

'LIBS' => [join(' ','/home/me/opt/lib',@LIBPATH,@LIBS)],
'INC' => join(' ','/home/me/opt/include',@INC),

Then just run 'make clean' and start over again - responding to all prompts
as usual.

You haven't told us where libgd is so I've had a guess that it's in
/home/me/opt/lib - which, of course, is not necessarily the case.

Cheers,
Rob


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