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I dug up some old code from last summer. It was a PHP-based AJAX photomanipulator. Well, I decided to move it off free hosting and put it on my dedicated Debian dev server, so I could feel physically closer to it.

It didn’t work. Well, parts of it. The reason was that the php5-gd package I used didn’t provide the imagefilter and imageconvolute functions. So I set off to rebuild php5-cgi, with the statically-linked version of GD that does provide these functions. Here we go:

apt get update && apt get upgrade
cd /usr/src
apt-get source php5-cgi
apt-get build-dep php5-cgi
cd php5-5.2.0

Okay, so we now have the source package. The configuration should be edited to indicate that we want statically-linked GD. Any text editor should do.

nano debian/rules

Change all instances of -fix-with-gd=shared,… to -fix-with-gd. Also add -fix-with-gd -fix-enable-gd-native-ttf to the configure-cgi-stamp: patch-stamp section. Now we save the files and start the build process.

./debian/rules binary

This takes a while. When it’s done, there should be some new debs in the parent directory. Let’s install them.

dpkg -i php5-cgi_5.2.0-8+etch7_i386.deb

At this point, the Web server should be restarted.