William Shipway from Blake Dawson Waldron International Lawyers has posted some Solaris installation notes to the nodemap-users mailing list.
The notes are reprinted here with permission. Thanks, William!
The issues covered by William here might also be useful to non-Solaris users who happen to have a version of GD which doesn't contain GIF support (my development system contains a version of GD which only contains GIF support -- Wah!)
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From: William Shipway
To: nodemap-users@lists.internode.on.net
Subject: RE: [nodemap] Any new user issues?
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 11:30:42 +1000
Hi all,
> But one correspondent has reported that Solaris isn't quite that simple.
I resolved my Solaris problem eventually.
It appears that my version of GD::Image does not support GIF format. I've
moved to PNG images instead, and that seems to work so far. The changes
needed for this are:
* create background images in PNG format instead of GIF
* edit nodemap script
- at line 413 change newFromGif to newFromPng
- at line 459 change $gd->gif(); to $gd->png;
- globally replace .gif with .png
* ensure etc/nodemap.cf lists .png image files, not .gif
FYI, some other Solaris 9 things I needed to do along the way. These
changes were for a new Solaris install so may not apply to all.
* Configure & start Apache
- cp /etc/apache/httpd.conf-example /etc/apache/httpd.conf
- edit httpd.conf to change ServerName, ServerAdmin, anything else
needed
# /etc/rc3.d/S50apache start
* Install developer tools, in my case I installed GCC
* Add third-party library path to runtime linking environment
# crle -l /usr/lib -l /usr/local/lib
* Edit system path
- ensure /usr/ucb is near the end
- /usr/ccs/bin and /opt/sfw/bin probably needed
* Install GD, libiconv, zlib, libpng, jpeg, freetype (eg from
www.sunfreeware.com)
* Install GD and the other required Perl modules via CPAN
- I must have screwed my build invironment, and had to build/install
some CPAN modules manually, by going into /.cpan/build/ and
calling: make clean, perl Makefile.PL, make, make install
Versions I am using:
Perl 5.6.1
libgd 2.0.22
libiconv 1.8
jpeg 6b
libpng 1.2.5
freetype 2.1.7
zlib 1.2.1
GCC 3.4.1
Internode Nodemap 1.0-solaris :-)
Cheers
William
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