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. -
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/>. -
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: - 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. -
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 (it looks for the specific paths instead of getting - them from your environment). But there's a way around that - :-) -
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 Instead of typing + "install GD" at the - + at the + cpan> prompt, type + 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 the - following patch to the Makefile.PL file (save the patch into a - file and use the command 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: +>patch < patchfile.)
-
---- GD-1.33/Makefile.PL Fri Aug 4 16:59:22 2000
-+++ GD-1.33-darwin/Makefile.PL Tue Jun 26 01:29:32 2001
-@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
- warn "NOTICE: This module requires libgd 1.8.3 or higher (shared library version 4.X).\n";
-
- # =====> PATHS: CHECK AND ADJUST <=====
--my @INC = qw(-I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gd);
--my @LIBPATH = qw(-L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -L/usr/local/lib );
-+my @INC = qw(-I/sw/include -I/sw/include/gd -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/include/gd);
-+my @LIBPATH = qw(-L/usr/lib/X11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/X11/lib -L/sw/lib -L/usr/local/lib);
- my @LIBS = qw(-lgd -lpng -lz);
-
- # FEATURE FLAGS
-@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
-
- push @LIBS,'-lttf' if $TTF;
- push @LIBS,'-ljpeg' if $JPEG;
--push @LIBS, '-lm' unless $^O eq 'MSWin32';
-+push @LIBS, '-lm' unless ($^O =~ /^MSWin32|darwin$/);
-
- # FreeBSD 3.3 with libgd built from ports croaks if -lXpm is specified
- if ($^O ne 'freebsd' && $^O ne 'MSWin32') {
-
-
- |
Then, run these commands to finish the installation of the perl module: -
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 And don't forget to run + exit to get back to cpan. | + + to get back to CPAN.
Happy Hacking! -