Re: [GD-DEVEL] gd for php5 under RH ES4

On 10/11/2006 10:36 PM, Doug Fulton wrote:
> I am trying to use the php gd library (for imagecreate, etc) with php5 
> under Red Hat ES4.  I tried installing php-gd via webmin (which in turn, 
> I see, uses up2date), but get the following error in the apache error 
> log when restarting:
> PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 
> '/usr/lib/php4/gd.so' - /usr/lib/php4/gd.so: undefined symbol: 
> empty_string in Unknown on line 0
> 
> I don't know if the problem is that php-gd is a php4 library 

Yes, gd.so apparently was built using headers from PHP4 or PHP5.0.x, this is the cause of your problem.

> or there is 
> something else that I need to install or do.  I saw something about 
> php5-gd, but webmin/up2date can't find anything by this name.
> 
> I have searched for a bit on this without joy; any guidance is 
> appreciated.  I am not a system administrator by training, but am a 
> longtime Unix programmer, so I can handle reasonably low level 
> instructions, if necessary.  I did post this to a Red Hat list without 
> any reply so far.


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Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal