Error installing PHP on Linux server

omhingmire

I am new to PHP , I am trying to install PHP on SUSE Linux machine.
But getting following error ,

Configuring extensions
checking size of long... (cached) 4
checking size of int... (cached) 4
checking for int32_t... yes
checking for uint32_t... yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for strtoll... yes
checking for atoll... yes
checking for strftime... (cached) yes
checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes
checking libxml2 install dir... no
checking for xml2-config path... /usr/bin/xml2-config
checking whether libxml build works... no
configure: error: build test failed. Please check the config.log for details.

wimbvt7:~/temp/PHP/php-5.2.10 # rpm -qa |grep xml2*
libxml2-2.6.7-28.1
libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.1
yast2-xml-2.9.8-19.1
libxml-1.8.17-366.1
libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.1

These are the libxml present on the machine.

In the config.log its saying...

configure:20669: checking for xml2-config path
configure:20827: checking whether libxml build works
configure:20854: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c

     -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl  -lxml2 -lz -lm 1>&5

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../libxml2.a(parser.o)(.text+0x2f16): In function xmlParseStringName': : undefined reference tostack_chk_fail'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../libxml2.a(parser.o)(.text+0x3c54): In function xmlParserHandlePEReference': : undefined reference tostack_chk_fail'

Pls help.. Thanks in advance..

sneakyimp

Is there any chance that SUSE linux might have an "apt-get" or "yum-install" command available to automate the PHP install? I use commands of this type when installing PHP on debian or centos and it saves me a lot of time because it takes care of locating all the dependencies.

If not, you might want to check your configure statement. I struggled to get PHP to configure and compile on my mac (which is basically a *nix machine) and the thread detailing my travails is here. You may need to download some other XML library to the right location. You may also need to alter your ./configure statement to indicate where the xml source code library lives.

bradgrafelman

@: If you're still struggling with this, try adding "--with-libxml-dir=/path/to/libxml2" (where the "/path/to/libxml2" is obviously to be replaced with the appropriate path) to your ./configure command.