Posted by ljb on 09/10/07 00:48

Can anybody explain what the --enable-gd-native-ttf configuration option
for the GD extension is supposed to do? The manual says:
To enable support for native TrueType string function
add --enable-gd-native-ttf.

I thought it changes whether gd uses an internal TrueType implementation to
the one supplied by the FreeType library. But I've built gd both with and
without this option, and the module (gd.so) comes out byte-for-byte
identical. So I guess it does nothing at all?

I'm using PHP-5.2.4 with these relevant configure options:
--with-gd=shared \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr \
--with-png-dir=/usr \
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr \
With or without:
--enable-gd-native-ttf

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