[Typo3-debian] GD with GIF support: Apache segfaults

[Scott Bronson]

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 03:10, Michael Stucki wrote:> Look at Joey's post.
I'm really interested to hear some real arguments
> against PNG (seriously!).

No version of IE, incluing 6, properly handles PNGs with either
animation or transparency.  If you want to use a picture with
either transparency or animation on your web site and ensure
that it will display properly in all modern browsers, .gif is
the only format to use.

Microsoft said they'd add .PNG support to IE4.  It's REALLY
annoying that they still haven't follwed through properly.


> - We want to have Typo3 be part of the official Debian one day

So why not have typo3-nonfree package (alongside gimp1.3-nonfree,
etc)?  The precedent is definitely there.


> - Debian doesn't accept LZW-Support (=GIF compression) because of its
>   license restrictions. Search Google to read more about this topic.

It's not an issue any more in the U.S.  And, in another year or so, the
problem goes away entirely:

    http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw/

(yes, I realise that Debian is global.  But, it might make sense to
prepare...)


It's easy enough to get imagemagick to support lzw [1].  But, do
you know how to get libgd2 to support gif?  I couldn't figure
it out.

    - Scott


[1]:

apt-get source imagemagick
cd imagemagick-5.5.7.9/debian
  (edit rules to add --enable-lzw)
cd ..
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
dpkg -i *.deb