Creating PHP mod for Apache on Solaris 8

joe_tseng

Like the topic says... I've been trying to do this all day and it's quite frustrating. (I wish they'd make a few precompiled binaries.)

Anyways after taking out alot of the configuration directives I finally got the box to make me a makefile. But now I'm getting an error:

...
make[1]: Entering directory /opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1' /bin/sh /opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -I. -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/ -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/main -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1 -I/usr/apache/include -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/Zend -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/ext/mysql/libmysql -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/ext/xml/expat/xmltok -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/ext/xml/expat/xmlparse -I/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/TSRM -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DEAPI -DMOD_PERL -DUSE_EXPAT -DXML_BYTE_ORDER=21 -g -O2 -o libphp4.la -rpath /opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1/libs -avoid-version -L/usr/ucblib -L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.2 -L/opt/postgresql-7.0.3/lib -R /usr/ucblib -R /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.2 -R /opt/postgresql-7.0.3/lib stub.lo Zend/libZend.la sapi/apache/libsapi.la main/libmain.la regex/libregex.la ext/mysql/libmysql.la ext/pcre/libpcre.la ext/pgsql/libpgsql.la ext/posix/libposix.la ext/session/libsession.la ext/standard/libstandard.la ext/xml/libxml.la TSRM/libtsrm.la -lpam -ldl -lpq -lresolv -lresolv -lm -ldl -lcrypt -lnsl -lsocket -lsocket -lgcc ld: fatal: file stub.lo: unknown file type ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to .libs/libphp4.so make[1]: *** [libphp4.la] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory/opt/tmp/php-4.0.4pl1'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
...

What the heck does that mean?!?!?! And for those people who have done it how did you make your mod_php([3|4]) file? Is there some site that might have that file or something like php-4.pkg?

setup:
Ultra5/Solaris8 10/00
default Apache install
php-4.0.4pl1

configure directives:
--with-pgsql
--enable-trans-sid
--with-config-file-path=/etc
--with-apxs=/usr/apache/bin/apxs

Anon

Did you run a make install on Apache first? I've seen this happen when building a module and not building Apache completely first.

joe_tseng

If I go ahead and finish building Apache, how can I register that install with the system? The default Solaris Apache install is under /usr/apache but it's not being picked up when I give the php config the apache directive. What file or string pattern is the config looking for?

Going off on a tangent... How do I register library files with the system (since there's no /etc/ld.so.conf under Solaris)? The Solaris sysadmin docs say go ahead and make a LD_LIBRARY_PATH value, but will it interfere with what is already registered in the system? I'm just trying to make some library files that will be utilized by php directives.

Anon

I take you are not compiling Apache from source? You're using the default Solaris 8 Apache. I recommend using GCC to compile Apache from source and then compiling in the PHP module. It's more straight forward than what you're attempting. It is my understanding that if you pass the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the correct way to get the library files read (I am not an expert on Solaris, I've just done ALOT of compiling on it). :-)

joe_tseng

OK... Now I've got Apache all compiled and set up the way I like it. How do I go and make mod_php? I tried again but instead of using axps I used the --with-apache directive and got an error message:

configure: error: Invalid Apache directory - unable to find httpd.h under /opt/apache-1.3.14

which is where I installed Apache.

I used the following flags:

--prefix=/opt/php-4.0.4
--with-pgsql=/opt/postgresql-7.0.3
--enable-trans-sid
--with-config-file-path=/etc
--with-apache=/opt/apache-1.3.14

billford

The Apache directory they're looking for is the Apache source directory. I usually install like this.

/usr/local/src/apache
/usr/local/src/php-4.x

in the configure command use

./configure --with-apache=../apache_src_dir

then you should be able to make mod_php just fine.