macports and specific build

[Mark Hattam]

At 16:23 -0500 12/10/06, cssdev at mac.com wrote:
>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


I've now manually installed gd 1.8.4_3 ... and re-installed php4 ... 
but it didn't notice.

So now trying by manually installing gd2 2.0.33

Mark