libmcrypt compiles in, but no ciphers!!??

zenforge

Have successfully compiled and installed PHP [versions below], and included several modules including libmcrypt. php config seems to find libmcrypt stuff (--with-mcrypt=<dir>), and it all compiles and runs ok.

Problem is that phpinfo reports no ciphers or modes available. A quick script (the one from the php manual for mcrypt functions) verifies something is not working right.

I've verified that the path to the libmcrypt library (/usr/local/lib) and libraries themselves are readable by web server user. Does anyone else have any pointers?

solaris 2.8
apache: 1.3.27
mcrypt: 2.5.13
libmcrypt: 2.5.7
php: 4.3.2

(libmcrypt were compiled without --with-included-algos, and with -disable-posix-threads. mcrypt was compiled rather generically. it seems like these days libmcrypt puts all modes and ciphers in by default, right?)

thanks much for any help!

tsinka

Hi,

in which order did you compile and install mcrypt and libmcrypt. Additionally you might want to also compile and install mhash.

Which configure switches did you use exactly ?

zenforge

1: libmcrypt:

CC=cc
./configure --disable-posix-threads; make

2: mhash: (sorry, forgot to mention i had this), v 0.8.18

CC=cc
./configure --disable-posix-threads; make

3: mcrypt:

CC=cc
./configure; make

(php🙂

CC="gcc -m32"
EAPI_MM=SYSTEM
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/WWW/bin/apxs \
--enable-ftp \
--with-config-file-path=/etc/php.ini \
--enable-trans-sid \
--disable-cli --enable-sockets \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--enable-discard-path \
--disable-path-info-check \
--with-zlib-dir=/usr/local \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \
--with-mhash=/usr/local --with-ndbm \
--with-mm --with-mcrypt=/usr/local \
--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \
--with-gd --with-png-dir -with-jpeg-dir \
--with-ttf \
--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--with-gettext \
--with-imap=/usr/local/src/imap-2002d \
--with-dom=/usr/local \
make

I just realized that mcrypt, however, seems out of date from current snapshot [others are current though]. Maybe that has something to do with it. Also, Google found me an old thread where someone re-untarred their source again and it worked (whereas make clean did not) for them [previous version, but...]. I will grab the latest, recompile all three again and then link in php again and see what happens. Will post again with results.

thanks for replying!
ivo

zenforge

Just a follow-up. I have not built PHP again yet, but I think I did get libmcrypt working. For those having problems similar to mine:

My problem was that libmcrypt was not including any ciphers/modes, whether I explicitly told it to or not. This was due to being on Solaris and having a compatability issue between sed and echo. On line 3449 of configure, sed was processing the results of an echo -n. On Solaris, sed seems to have problems with this - it expects the newlines I guess. If I remove the -n option from echo, libmcrypt seems to compile in all modes and ciphers like it supposed to (or, atleast make check now works).

I saw indications that Nikos is aware of this issue, so hopefully it is fixed in the next release or already fixed in CVS.