GD Install Trouble

[rick....@gxs.com]

bugzilla 3.0.4 is installed and working great but we're having trouble
enabling charting/graphing. when installing the perl GD modules for
charting/graphing support after running the following command:
/usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'install "GD"'

we get the following fatal error message:
**UNRECOVERABLE ERROR**
Could not find gdlib-config in the search path. Please install libgd
2.0.28 or higher.
If you want to try to compile anyway, please rerun this script with
the option --ignore_missing_gd.

we have the following GD 2.0.28 RPM packages installed:
[root@nemo bugzilla-3.0.4]# rpm -qa | grep "^gd-\|^gd-devel-"
gd-2.0.28-5.4E.el4_6.1
gd-devel-2.0.28-5.4E.el4_6.1

that include the following files:
[root@nemo bugzilla-3.0.4]# rpm -q gd -l
/usr/lib/libgd.so.2
/usr/lib/libgd.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.28
/usr/share/doc/gd-2.0.28/index.html
[root@nemo bugzilla-3.0.4]# rpm -q gd-devel -l
/usr/include/entities.h
/usr/include/gd.h
/usr/include/gd_io.h
/usr/include/gdcache.h
/usr/include/gdfontg.h
/usr/include/gdfontl.h
/usr/include/gdfontmb.h
/usr/include/gdfonts.h
/usr/include/gdfontt.h
/usr/include/gdfx.h
/usr/lib/libgd.a
/usr/lib/libgd.so

and we're running the following OS:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
Kernel 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp on an i686

so don't really understand what the perl install is asking for here as
it seems we have the correct RPM package installed. anyone have any
suggestions please?

thanks,
rick

[Tosh, Michael J]

Quoting rick....@gxs.com:
> so don't really understand what the perl install is asking for here as
> it seems we have the correct RPM package installed. anyone have any
> suggestions please?

It's looking for this file: gdlib-config
I don't know enough about this to know when you'd have that gdlib-config
file and when you wouldn't, but it is a starting point.

[rick....@gxs.com]

On Aug 12, 1:18 pm, "Tosh, Michael J" <michael.j.t...@lmco.com> wrote:

thanks Michael Tosh! this issue is resolved and here's the summary of
what we did in hopes it helps other Red Hat Linux users. gdlib-config
is a script file that has been included in the open source
distribution of the gd library since version 2.0.26. we have the Red
Hat gd library version 2.0.28 installed as an rpm however this
distribution (RHEL AS 4) does not include gdlib-config! contacted Red
Hat support about this and they confirmed that gdlib-config is not
part of their official 2.0.28 distribution and they only began
includin the script as part of RHEL AS 5. So to resolve this, we
downloaded the open source gd library from the following link:
http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.28.html#getgd
decompressed/untarred the file, and then ran ./configure from the
gd-2.0.28 directory. once the command had completed we copied the
newly created gdlib-config file from the gd-2.0.28/config directory to
the /usr/bin directory and made the file executable by running 'chmod
774 gdlib-config'. after that every one of the perl GD modules
installed without error.