There are a lot of common libraries and utilities out there that - Apple did not include with Mac OS X, but which run perfectly well on it. - The GD library, which Bugzilla needs to do bug graphs, is one of - these.
The easiest way to get a lot of these is with a program called - Fink, which is similar in nature to the CPAN installer, but installs - common GNU utilities. Fink is available from - <http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/>.
Follow the instructions for setting up Fink. Once it's installed, - you'll want to run the following as root: - fink install gd -
It will prompt you for a number of dependencies, type 'y' and hit - enter to install all of the dependencies. Then watch it work.
To prevent creating conflicts with the software that Apple installs - by default, Fink creates its own directory tree at /sw where it installs - most of the software that it installs. This means your libraries and - headers for libgd will be at /sw/lib and /sw/include instead of /usr/lib - and /usr/local/include. Because of these changed locations for the - libraries, the Perl GD module will not install directly via CPAN, because it - looks for the specific paths instead of getting them from your - environment. But there's a way around that :-)
Instead of typing - "install GD" - at the - cpan> - prompt, type - look GD. - This should go through the motions of downloading the latest version of - the GD module, then it will open a shell and drop you into the build - directory. Apply this patch - to the Makefile.PL file (save the - patch into a file and use the command - patch < patchfile.) -
Then, run these commands to finish the installation of the GD - module: -
| perl Makefile.PL - |
| make - |
| make test - |
| make install - |
| And don't forget to run - exit - - to get back to CPAN. |