What does --enable-gd-native-ttf do?

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Re: What does --enable-gd-native-ttf do?

ljb wrote:
> Can anybody explain what the --enable-gd-native-ttf configuration option
> for the GD extension is supposed to do? The manual says:
> To enable support for native TrueType string function
> add --enable-gd-native-ttf.
>
> I thought it changes whether gd uses an internal TrueType implementation to
> the one supplied by the FreeType library. But I've built gd both with and
> without this option, and the module (gd.so) comes out byte-for-byte
> identical. So I guess it does nothing at all?
>
> I'm using PHP-5.2.4 with these relevant configure options:
> --with-gd=shared \
> --with-zlib-dir=/usr \
> --with-png-dir=/usr \
> --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
> --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
> With or without:
> --enable-gd-native-ttf

Did you look at the source? Maybe it's only applicable in Windows? I
have no idea.

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