php-gd compiled with external gd, utf-8

["reinhold roppert" <nb_rm%rmroppert.info@localhost>]

Hello,

i have some serious problems using php with bundled gd and utf-8
encodings (see
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2007/10/22/0001.html).

Because it seems there is no solution for the problem jet, I thought
about this workaround.

On a testserver i compiled php-gd with the external
gd-version and use this gd_external.so in the php.ini for mod-php.

For the commandline i used another php_cli.ini the with the
bundled version of gd.

The obove solution works on a testmachine but i don't know if it will
be stable on an production server.

Did somebody use this? May there be problems to use this with netbsd?

What should i  change in the Makefile of php-gd to use the external gd?
For testing i only changed
-CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --with-${MODNAME}
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --with-${MODNAME}=${BUILDLINK_DIR}


Regards
Reinhold

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R.M.Roppert