How to fix configure: error: gd library not
found.. please install libgd during webalizer port make on
FreeBSD
I've done a couple of updates these days on my tiny FreeBSD server
system. I've updated Apache and PHP to version:
pcfreak# pkg_info |grep -i php5-5; pkg_info |grep -i
apache-2.0.64
php5-5.3.5 PHP Scripting Language
apache-2.0.64 Version 2.0.x of Apache web server with prefork
MPM.
As a requirement for the php5-5.3.5 update it was necessary that I
update a number of modules the whole list of php modules which I've
updated can be seen in
my previous blog post named core dump after PHP5 and
php5-extensions recompile (rebuild) from ports on FreeBSD - cause
and solution
Some further updates I've done manually on the BSD in order to be
able to properly compile my support
libgd in
Apache and
PHP were in the system ports:
pcfreak# pkg_info |grep -i gd-
gd-2.0.35_7,1 A graphics library for fast creation of images
php5-gd-5.3.5 The gd shared extension for php
One night after all the updates I've realized my installed version
of
webalizer was not showing / generating properly the
images of the webalizer daily generated statistics via cron.
Logically to fix that it was necessary that the
/usr/ports/www/webalizer port to be rebuilt through
make
install clean
I've jumped on and executed the well known:
freebsd# cd /usr/ports/www/webalizer;
freebsd# make install clean
The download compile of the webalizer started as expected but just
in a couple of seconds it failed with:
ecking for main in -lgd... no configure: error: gd
library not found.. please install libgd
What was strange was that the
gd-2.0.35_7,1 port was
properly installed and therefore I could see no reason for the
webalizer build failure.
I've spend about an two hours to look online in forums about
somebody who got the same error with no luck.
As I couldn't find anything that could help me up online, I've
decided to drop by the good old
irc.freenod.net ##freebsd
channel to ask for help.
Luckily enough the guy with a nickname Mystique has
suggested a solution of using the freebsdportmaster in order to
solve the gdlib issues.
He suggested something might be broken with my
gd-2.0.35_7,1 -
gdlib install and adviced me to rebuild the gdlib port
with:
freebsd# cd /usr/ports/graphics/gd
freebsd# portmaster .
Anyways what I did was a bit different I used his
postmaster
. suggestion but applyed it directly for the webalizer port
with:
freebsd# cd /usr/ports/www/webalizer
freebsd# portmaster .
All worked like a charm and just about few minutes later my
webalizer was compiled fine and working with the gdlib support,
e.g. showing me the webalizer statistical data pictures
;)