macports and specific build

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On Oct 12, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Mark Hattam wrote:

>> The php4 port version 4.4.4 revision 2 does include a gd variant.  
>> Make sure you have the latest version of the port by first saying  
>> "sudo port sync"
>
> it seems to have ignored the +gd bit altogether, as it went through  
> all the usual parts of the install without apparently doing  
> anything about gd. I expected it to download and install gd as part  
> of the php4 install, like it does with expat, gettext, openssl and  
> the like.

At a quick glance, this looks like a bug:

variant gd {
         depends_lib-append      port:jpeg port:libpng port:freetype

         configure.args-append   --with-gd \
                                 --with-jpeg-dir=${prefix} \
                                 --with-png-dir=${prefix} \
                                 --enable-gd-native-ttf \
                                 --with-freetype-dir=${prefix}
}

The depends_lib does not include port:gd. Should the user should  
beforehand decide which particular version of gd to install (gd, gd2,  
or gd2-nox11)? Try installing one of those first, then install php4  
with the +gd variant.

Chris