[RESOLVED] Starting Apache 2.0.58 with PHP 5 gives _zend_list_delete error

[joeprogrammer]

Hi, I want to set up my own web server, so I first of all compiled Apache 2.0.58 (I've read that Apache 2.2.2 doesn't work with PHP 5).

I managed to compile it and get it to display some webpages. But of course no webserver is complete without PHP, so I proceeded to compiling PHP 5. I did everything exactly the way the instructions say at PHP.net, but when I try to run, I get the following error:

Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/libphp5.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/libphp5.so: undefined symbol: _zend_list_delete

After much googling 😃, I found several solutions (and someone spamming the boards, aka AlpineKid):

> Hi,

I'm trying to compile php5 for apache2.

When I try to load the php module I get an undefined symbol:
_zend_list_delete error in libphp5.so.

When I use objdump and look inside libphp5.so I see all the zend*
functions are undefined.

What did I forget to do?

The problem is with mysql... doesn't seem obvious but this has happened
to a number of users...

Here is a fix, hopefully your mysql directories are the same
cd /usr/lib/mysql
rename .a .a_old .a
rename .la .la_old .la

Then run configure/make/make install

Then rename these files back.

cd /usr/lib/mysql
rename .a_old .a .a_old
rename .la_old .la .la_old

Mike

hi.
there may be some problem with the path to libc and other libs on your system.
per default php5 s configure script uses /usr/local/lib.
you might want to add some --libdir=/usr/lib to your ./configure
like
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-pear --with-mcrypt --with-mysql --libdir=/usr/lib

to be sure it uses the new path do some
make clean
make distclean
before recompiling.

if /usr/lib doesent work you may look for your systems default library direcotry 🙂

None of these seemed to work 🙁. I have rebuilt a million times, Googled until I thought I would die, and now am completely confused. 😕

Does anybody have a solution that works?

Thanks in advance!!!

[joeprogrammer]

I got rid of the error..... what I did was this:

1. Cleaned the hard drive of anything looking remotely like PHP, MySQL or Apache.
2. Built Apache 2.0.58
3. Built MySQL 5
4. Used that solution above (the one about renaming the libs; the lib files for mysql 5 is located in /usr/local/mysql/libs/mysql/)
5. Deleted the folder I used to build PHP 5, and then unarchived a fresh copy from my php-5.1.4.tar.gz file.
6. Built PHP 5
7. Named the files back as per instruction above

This got ride of all the errors, so all I can say to anybody else who is unlucky enough to get them is, clean everything that is Apache, MySQL or PHP, and then start over. That seemed to work. 🙂

[tahmMee]

I had the same problem. I noticed that mysql was installed in /usr/local/lib/mysql, not /usr/lib/myqsl.

Instead of wipping everything out, I did :

mv /usr/lib/mysql /usr/lib/mysql_bak

ln -s /usr/local/lib/mysql /usr/lib/

then go back to php src directory:

make clean
make distclean
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql --libdir=/usr/lib
make && make install

(magic)

then ./apachectl -k start worked