GD downloaded/compiled from RedHat Source RPM, gd-1.8.3-7.src.rpm:
...
rpm -ivh gd-1.8.3-7.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/gd-1.8.3
make
make install
...

./configure --with-zlib --with-interbase --with-mysql --with-bz2 --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --enable-yp --with-ttf --with-gd


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make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/gd'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/gd'
/bin/sh /usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc  -I. -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/gd -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/main -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5 -I/usr/local/apache/include -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/Zend -I/usr/local/include/freetype -I/usr/interbase/include -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/mysql/libmysql -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/xml/expat/xmltok -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/xml/expat/xmlparse -I/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/TSRM  -DSHARED_MODULE -DLINUX=22 -DUSE_HSREGEX -DUSE_EXPAT -DNO_DL_NEEDED -DSUPPORT_UTF8 -DXML_BYTE_ORDER=12 -g -O2  -c gd.c
gd.c:91: conflicting types for `gdIOCtx'
/usr/local/include/gd_io.h:18: previous declaration of `gdIOCtx'
gd.c: In function `php_if_imagecreatefromgif':
gd.c:730: `gdImageCreateFromGif' undeclared (first use in this function)
gd.c:730: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
gd.c:730: for each function it appears in.)
gd.c: In function `php_if_imagegif':
gd.c:917: `gdImageGif' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [gd.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/gd'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext/gd'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/php-4.0.5/ext'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1