Build PHP with Freetype on DirectAdmin

Easy way to add freetype support on PHP, on a DirectAdmin hosting environment with Fedora as the OS, is to use the rpm versions of freetype and freetype-devel.

1. If not installed already:
   
   # yum install freetype freetype-devel
   
   

2. Edit "/usr/local/directadmin/customapache/configure.php" to include the below lines.
   
           --with-freetype \
        --with-freetype-dir=/usr/lib \
        --enable-gd-native-ttf \
   
   Note: /usr/lib is the path to the libttf.so .
   
   # rpm -ql freetype-devel | grep libttf.so
   
   

3. Then run the build:
   
   # ./build clean
# ./build php n
   
   

4. If you need to build and update existing packages:
   
   # ./build clean
# ./build update
# ./build all
   
   

5. Check with phpinfo to confirm.
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