Installing GD with freetype no longer working on 7.0 and 7.1

[lsascha]

Since some time it seems that the documentation in how to install GD into PHP does no longer work with PHP-Versions 7.0-apache and 7.1-apache.

On 7.2 it works.

Only way currently to install GD at all for me is not adding freetype like this:
docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/

instead of docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/include/

libfreetype6-dev is always installed.

the image build just cancels with the message:

configure: error: GD build test failed. Please check the config.log for details.

[vincentnguyen92]

Try to change version PHP from 7.0-apache to 7.0-fpm.

[lsascha]

That would require quite some changes in configuration as i would need another container just for Apache. right?

And since freetype in GD works on PHP:7.2-apache i still consider it a bug.

And also it worked some time ago. Unfortunately i can't exactly say when it worked on 7.1 or 7.0.

[mlocati]

I just tried to install GD with my script (install-php-extensions gd) both on php:7.0-apache and on php:7.1-apache and it has been installed without problems.
For PHP 7.0 and 7.1, for gd that script basically callls:

apt-get update

apt-get install -y libwebp-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libpng-dev libxpm-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev

docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-gd --with-webp-dir --with-jpeg-dir \
    --with-png-dir --with-zlib-dir --with-xpm-dir --with-freetype-dir \
    --enable-gd-native-ttf

docker-php-ext-install gd

(see here and here)

[lsascha]

mhh. I tried to change it similar to what you have (added libxpm-dev + libwebp-dev and removed paths to the --with-xy-dir parameters) But i still get the error
configure: error: GD build test failed. Please check the config.log for details.

Is there some way i can see what got written into that config.log even when the whole container build fails?

Might try to use your script instead of installing it myself. Maybe there is something else different that i am missing.

[mlocati]

Is there some way i can see what got written into that config.log even when the whole container build fails?

@lsascha you can try to manually build it inside docker. Simply run
docker run --rm -it php:7.2-apache bash
and you can perform all the operations you want, as well as see the contents of the config.log file.

Might try to use your script instead of installing it myself. Maybe there is something else different that i am missing.

Please let me know if it'll work (it does for me).

[tianon]

Closing, given that we cannot reproduce the issue.

In the future, these sorts of questions/requests would be more appropriately posted to the Docker Community Forums, the Docker Community Slack, or Stack Overflow. Thanks!

[tianon]

Please keep discussion of #865 over on #865. This issue is unrelated (and predates Debian Buster by quite some time).