Comment 0 for bug 1294074

There appears to be several people online reporting issues with php5-gd in Debian & Ubuntu which are complaining about missing functions. I felt that it was worth captuing as this may be a packaging issue, I've tested on 14.04 latest and I can replicate the issue... it is fine on RedHat however, for example.

To quote some existing posts on the subject:-

"The version Ubuntu uses misses some functions like imagerotate and imageantialias, which are needed by an increasing number of software projects."

The issue can be replicated as follows:-

"Make sure you have php5-cli, php5-gd, rpm and mc installed.

First, check if you even have a problem. On the commandline type:
php -r "var_dump(function_exists('imageantialias'));"
This will return bool(false) if you are missing the function imageantialias(), and bool(true) if the function is pressent."

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: php5-gd 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Mar 18 11:37:15 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-25 (143 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: php5
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-17 (59 days ago)