mod_php and gd

vanpelt · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 22 Location: San Diego

I'm fairly new to gentoo, and I tryed to emerge mod_php for my apache server. I need the GD library to alter images and such, but for some reason it does not compile gd support. I have emerged gdlib and jpeg, is there something else I am missing?

Messiah · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 139

You need to use the USE variable in /etc/make.conf
put gd (and png) in USE

vanpelt · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 22 Location: San Diego

Being an ignorant and foolish newbie to gentoo. What would that look like syntactically, and would I than edit make.conf to exclude these use statements after I have emerged mod_php?

Messiah · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 139

Did you read the comments in /etc/make.conf? And, did you read the USE variable howto?

The syntax is:
USE="gd png"

But be aware that you do define it once in /etc/make.conf, so please read through the whole file.

HTH

PS Another tip from me, there are lots of information in the docs on the website of gentoo