[tbox-l] GD segfault issue

[Hurt, R. <Ric...@yu...>]

I am trying to get Bugzilla up and running on AIX 5.3 but am having a
real problem with the GD library provided on the Linux Toolbox page
(http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html).
The precompiled version works but it's really, really old (v1.8.4) and
is incompatible with some of the other libraries.

I have tried to compile the current version (v2.0.32) with GCC 3.3.2 and
while I didn't get any errors or warnings the test applications
segfault.  It looks like the problem occurs when trying to use any type
of font; running the gifanimtest program works, but running any of the
ones that deal with fonts (fontsizetest, fontconfigtest, fontwheeltest,
& circletexttest) dump core every time.  Here is the line that it's
dumping on:=20

	gdImageStringFT(im, 0, blue, "arial", 12, 0, 20, 20, "plain
pathname default");=20

I posted a question on Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.aix/browse_thread/thread/628b2
062e9ef2ad7?hl=3Den) but haven't had much time to look at it until now.

What can I do to help get this work?  I'm not really a C programmer,
just a tinkerer, but I have been able to build everything else I need
without problems.  I don't really know if this is the GD library or
something to do with fonts on AIX.  I have fontconfig 2.2.2-3 and
ghostscript-fonts-6.0-1 installed.  What else do I need to do?  Any help
would be greatly appreciated!

Thanx!
  Richard



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