4.3.0 install on RedHat 8.0

cliffyman

I'm having trouble getting PHP 4.3.0 to compile on my RedHat 8.0 box. I compiled both MySQL and Apache (1.3.27) without problems, then came to PHP using the following configure statement:

./configure \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql/ \
--with-xml \
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--enable-track-vars \
--with-java=/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.1_01/

PHP seems to configure just fine. However, when I make, I get several errors and warnings, mostly related to libtool.

(these come near the beginning)

Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported.
All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped.

Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library
dependencies of module libphp4. Therefore, libtool will create
a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening
application is linked with the -dlopen flag.

(here's what it says right before it dies)

ext/ctype/ctype.lo: file not recognized: File truncated
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1

I previously tried to install PHP + Apache from a tutorial here that said to configure Apache first, then configure, make and make install PHP (using different configure options), and then finishing off Apache - apparently to build PHP into the Apache binary itself. I had issues with that and decided to just try and use the shared object way with PHP instead.

I'm stumped - ideas, anyone?

-Cliff

colbec

I don't know that there is anything wrong with ctype here, just that it seems to be the first item in the link process. Evidently it is not ready to link.

Have you tried deleting the source directory and letting tar build a new one, then you know that the object files created will be fresh.

Exactly what problems came up when you tried to follow the basic instructions? Maybe they will shed some light. Also reduce your option list to a basic one and see if it will run through.

Lots of hd space available when you link?

ereptur

I had the same problem recently, try this:

./configure
make clean
make install

When I tried a make by itself, it didn't work at all, but when I did it in that order, everything went fine.

cliffyman

Looks like that worked, the compile went through without a hitch. However, I can't seem to find libphp4.so on my system anywhere so I can link it with my httpd.conf file ... ideas?

-Cliff

ereptur

apparently with some versions of gcc, it puts the .o files in the wrong place or makes duplicates... something crazy like that.

cliffyman

colbec,

I know it wasn't a disk space issue as I have 2.8G free on the partition I'm working on.

As for the other problems (when compiling php right into httpd), it was almost a similar problem to the one I'm experiencing now - there was a file that should have been created in /apacheprefix/src/modules/php4/ that I think was something like libphp4.a but the file didn't exist. I believe libphp4.module and libmodphp4.a were present and I tried to specifity each of those into Apache at compile time instead, but it failed.

The 'make clean' for PHP looks like it might have cleaned out some of those types of files that were causing a problem. However, I still can't find libphp4.so and I'm a bit baffled as to why it isn't being written to disk.

-Cliff

cliffyman

I removed the PHP source directory, untared it again, then did the following:

./configure (all the same options as before)
make
make install

and everything worked fine!

Apparently when you do a PHP configure/make/make install with the --with-apache=/pathtoapachesource PHP doesn't want to build properly when you specify --with-apxs=/pathtoapacheapxs later. I doubt this is a bug; am I just missing something?