In this short HowTo I will describe how You can rebuild the php5-cgi to use the php5-bundled gd library on debian etch.

This point is sometimes necessary if you or your application will use some special gd functions missing in the libgd but be part of the php5-gd. (i.e. imagefilter() or imagerotate() will be missing if you use the original debian etch php5-cgi)

firrst of all:

change to the source directory

download the source for php5 from debian

download some other stuff for re-building the package:

after that change to the new extract of php5-5*
when i write this the current version is php5-5.2.0:

now edit the debian configuration:

change every line from

to

in the section configure-cgi-stamp: patch-stamp add the following lines: (I didi it after the $(COMMON_CONFIG) line)

now save the rules file and start the re-building ...

after a cuple of time change back to the source the directory
and you will see a couple of new .deb files.

now install the new cgi binary

after all restart apache ...

thats all

Harald

Edit: Updated to the last Version, JPEG Support 4 GD enabled.

This post was last modified: 06-10-2008 07:33 PM by hbaes.

And the benefit is...?
The php package in Debian doesn't use the bundled library because of security reasons.
When a shared library has a security bug and is fixed all the binaries using that library are 'safe'. But if the bundled library code isn't fixed php would still be vulnerable (and let me tell you something, the security team won't fix the bundled one).

This is a fix one, save them all v.s. a fix ALL, waste your time situation; of course Debian uses the former approach (others should do too, why aren't the changes in the bundled libgd2 code included by the main libgd2 library?)

hi

thanks for this howto. i need functions like imagerotate().

but now i've got one more problem.

i did it like its explained, but the gd doesnt support jpg and png.

how can i rebuild it that this is enabled?


regards