PHP 3 compile error on a rh6.2 box

[Anon]

To any one who can help
I was wondering if you could help with a problem I am
having recompileing php-4.0-4 with apache, ftp, mysql
and gd. The configure process goes well, but after
running make on php I get the following error

/usr/include/alloca.h:25 stddef.h: No such file or
directory
make[1]: [zend_language_scanner.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory \'/temp/php-4-0.4/Zend\'
make: [all-recursive] Error 1

Configuring without Zend does not solve the problem,
and the strange thing is the the alloca.h header does
exits in /usr/include. Are these headers curropted, ?They seem to open fine and these are bog standard headers
Thanks in advance for any help

[jblallement]

Hi,

It's stddef.h that is missing.
Verify it exists on your system. Maybe there are some symlinks missing.

This can occurs on Linux system when kernel headers are not installed.

[Anon]

problem is that stddef does exist
what symlinks would i need to build