Re: User specified location of GD not carried into Makefiles

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m sutton wrote:

> My reasoning is the configure script should examine a --with-gd 
> specified path before checking the $PATH.  

... except that --with-gd was invented long before gdlib-config, which 
is a way better solution to the underlying problem than any autoconf-fu 
we could come up with ourselves.  Just use it.

 > After all I just
> explicitly told configure where to look.  

You didn't tell it where to look for gdlib-config.  The optional path 
argument of --with-gd specifies paths for the library, not gdlib-config.

Ultimately, the mistake is to have installed libgd in a place where 
gdlib-config did not end up on your PATH.  Such installations are, by 
all practical means and purposes, unusable.