Installing GD perl libraries with library dependancies

Hi,

This appears to be a perl question but I think it is more suited for this forum as there are many system library dependencies. I'm installing software with GD and perl requirements on Red Hat (2.6.9-55.0.2.ELsmp) x84_64, perl v5.8.5.

Requirements from README are:
perl 5.6.1 preferred, perl 5.004 or higher (ftp site info at http://www.perl.com/CPAN)
with the modules CGI and Data:umper and the following GD modules:
1) GD => download from http://www.boutell.com/gd/;
2) GDTextUtil from http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MV/MVERB/GDTextUtil-0.86.tar.gz;
3) GD2.30 from http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/L/LD/LDS/GD-2.30.tar.gz;
4) GDGraphs from http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MV/MVERB/GDGraph-1.43.tar.gz;

I installed GD using up2date (packages gd, gd-progs and gd-devel). But when I try to install GDTextUtil.pm CPAN attempts to install the GD-2.35.pm module as a dependency (which it is) but the make fails with the following error:

usr/lib64 -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -L/usr/lib64 -lXpm -lX11 -ljpeg -lfreetype -lpng12 -lz -lm -lgd
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXpm
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

If I run this command from the shell and remove the -lXpm switch ld fails as it can't find -lX11.

I'm not too experienced with sys admin stuff, do I need to install all these dependencies for ld to be able to link (I'm guessing yes). If so, should I run up2date on these modules, if so there are many x11 modules does anyone know which one to install? What about for Xpm?

Any help appreciated.

thanks!

woodfett

That's cool it's sorted.

I installed:

xorg-x11-devel libraries and
libpng-devel

and then the compile and install for GD and GDTextUtil worked

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