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  Re: Difficulty with gd and hf-lab  
From: Matt Giwer
Date: 11 Dec 2000 15:15:34
Message: <3A3535E6.3EF0531A@ij.net>
Litho Man wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get HF-Lab installed on my RedHat 6.2 box. Initial attempts at
> compile revealed that gd-1.3 wasn't providing the support for PNGs that
> HF-Lab needs.
> So I'm trying to install gd-1.7.3. I've tried making it from the tarball and
> I've tried installing the RPM. Neither errored out, but nor does gd-1.7.3
> seem to be installed on the system. RPM -V tells me not installed.
> 
> make on hf-lab still tries to get gdImagePng out of gd-1.3
> There is an option to make it without current gd support... editing the
> config.h file to #define OLD_GD. Of course, that removes all imaging support
> from hf-lab, or I assume that is why I get a seg fault when trying the
> 'show' command that displays the image.
> 
> I am farily new to Linux, but pick up quick, quick enough to be dangerous,
> and I hope I haven't hosed my system :)
> 
> Any experienced input?

	You have a suggestion from Steve. Does that work for you? I have it
compiled. I have not played with it much. But I find an original version
of fftn.c with a modified version. I have no memory if I changed it or
it came that way. But I can send it to you if you like. 

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