help! php 5.2.5 configure always fails on libmcrypt

[jfernandez]

I'm trying to install php5.2.5 on fc8, when I ran configure with '--with-mcrypt' option, I always get the following error even if I have libmycrypt 2.5.8 installed.

checking for libmcrypt version... >= 2.5.6
checking for mcrypt_module_open in -lmcrypt... no
checking for mcrypt_module_open in -lmcrypt... no
configure: error: Sorry, I was not able to diagnose which libmcrypt version you have installed.

I'm thinking there might be an earlier version of libmycrypt installed by fc8. But I can't find it. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Thanks.

JF

[bradgrafelman]

Did you try specifying where exactly you installed libmcrypt, e.g. --with-mcrypt=/usr ?

I believe you can find where mcrypt is on your system by typing locate mcrypt but don't quote me on that - I'm not knowledgeable with the Unix OS's anymore. 🙁

Likewise, you can try removing libmcrypt and then doing:

rm -rf /usr/bin/libmcrypt-config /usr/lib/libmcrypt* /usr/include/mcrypt.h
cd /usr/local/src

(substituting in correct paths as necessary) to ensure that it's completely gone before you re-install it and try to re-compile.

[kike314]

Hy JF. I want to know If you fix this problem, because I'm having the same and I don't know how to fix it.

Thanks!

K