configure: error: cannot find necessary header file(s)

[sanxion]

I've installed apache2 on Linux and now want to install php. The configure gives an error. Am I missing a vital package? Is the apache2 install incomplete?

See below

Configuring extensions
checking for ZLIB support... yes
checking if the location of ZLIB install directory is defined... yes
checking for gzgets in -lz... yes
checking whether to enable bc style precision math functions... no
checking for BZip2 support... no
checking whether to enable calendar conversion support... no
checking for cpdflib support... no
checking for CRACKlib support... no
checking whether to enable ctype functions... yes
checking for CURL support... no
checking for cyrus imap support... no
checking for xDBM support... no
checking whether to enable DBA... no
checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... no
configure: error: cannot find necessary header file(s)

[sglane]

Isn't php experimental on apache2?

[sanxion]

Is it a waste of time to try?

[jerdo]

No it's not a waste of time, and no I don't believe it's experimental with Apache 2 anymore. As for your problem, in your configure what comes after the line before the error?

[gregor63]

I didn't checked this, but as I know if something (e.g. MySQL) is installed without headers files you cannot print in PHP configure options exact dir name.

It means, that

./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

works only if you installed mysql with headers.

If not, you have to print

./configure --with-mysql

So, check the same configure options, but without exact names of directories.

Gregor63