First of all, thanks for this very extensive report... if only all reports where like this :)

I think the problem might be that libjpeg.a is a static library which is compiled in in both gd and libpdf, you might try a shared variant and see if this fixes it.

Derick

just tried it: d57107# ./configure --enable-shared
---
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
---

libtool version 1.4.2.tar.gz 

for some reason jpeg won't compile as a shared library. tried to edit Makefile and change ./libtool to /usr/local/bin/libtool, but that doesn't make a difference, they are the same version.

can i change Makefile to build a shared library while configure says it can't?

and ideas?

In the libtool script, check whether file_magic_cmd in the
freebsd* case statement lists '/usr/bin/file -L' instead of plain /usr/bin/file and change accordingly (it should be '/usr/bin/file -L').

Then try to recompile with shared support.

Finally got it running! well, it's not a problem with PHP, but as Derick mentioned a shared library problem.

The issue with not building shared libraries happens with jpeg-6b and gdbm 1.8.0

I wasn't able to find the stuff msopacua@idg.nl mentioned in libtool, ltconfig or ltmain.sh so i started a search on my own for a solution.

The problem is related to the version of ltconfig and ltmain.sh, jpeg6b and gdbm are using. With this version, compiling shared libraries fails on FreeBSD 4.3(x?)

d57107# ./ltconfig --version
ltconfig (GNU libtool) 1.2


Forcing shared libraries in Makefile doesn't work either, 

It messes up the gcc -shared command jpeg is using and it fails to build the compile line in a good order (something with 'gcc -o ./libs' where ./libs should be an output file and not a directory?)

anyway the solution is to do a cp /usr/local/share/libtool/ltconfig ltconfig
and a 
cp /usr/local/share/libtool/ltmain.sh ltmain.sh

it 'updates' the old ltconfig, jpeg and gdbm are using too this version:
d57107# /usr/local/share/libtool/ltconfig --version
ltconfig (GNU libtool) 1.3.4-freebsd-ports (1.385.2.196 1999/12/07 21:47:57)

when you've done this and run confure/gmake, jpeg and gdbm are reporting some errors during compilation: 
'test: no: unexpected operator'

you can safely (?) ignore these, it does work.


and this is my new configure line, as you can see i added some packages:
./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs \
--with-config-file-path=/etc \
--enable-shared \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gdbm \
--with-gd \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-jpeg-dir \
--with-png-dir \
--with-freetype-dir \
--with-mysql=/usr/local \
--with-zlib-dir \
--with-zlib \
--with-pdflib \
--with-tsrm-pth \
--with-openssl \
--with-zip \
--with-snmp \
--with-tsrm-pth \

only have to rebuild php to update zlib to 1.1.4:

----
zlib
ZLib Support enabled 
Compiled Version 1.1.4 
Linked Version 1.1.3 
---

/me is very happy it works now :)

thank you all for the support!

Ok, closing then.

Derick