[Mapserver-users] trouble running mapserv

[jjkao@ensys.ev.nctu.edu.tw (Jehng-Jung Kao)]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, gvkumar wrote:

> Hi, I was trying to install MapServer and everything seemed to be going well 
> until I actually ran mapserv. It gave me this output:
> 
> [gvkumar@server08 mapserver-3.6.5]$ ./mapserv
> ./mapserv: error while loading shared libraries: libgd.so.2: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory

If you use apache 1.3.x, the way I do to resolve this problem:
   1. check where the libgd.so.2?  (/usr/local/lib?)

   2. Then, add
 
     setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/local/lib"

     into the <... setenv...> ...</...> of your apache's httpd.conf. 

-- jjkao