Version 4.04 installation problem(s)

[graham]

I am struggling to install version 4.04 using a tarball php4.0.4pl1.tar on a Linux box.
I am unable, as yet, to successfuly compile php as I receive one of two different errors while experimenting with settings.
It reports that it cannot find the header files, or cannot locate the library mysqlclient.

The configuration statement

"./configure --with-mysql=/mysql-3.22.32 --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs"

produces the error "Cannot find header files under /mysql-3.22.32"

I have a line in the /etc/ld.so.conf file which says

"/mysql-3.22.32/client/.libs"

as this is where the file libmysqlclient.so lives, and reloaded the system.

So, despite experimenting with different directory settings in the ld.sp.conf file, and ./configure statement parameters,
I keep getting either one of these two errors - the header or the library.
I'm doing something really stupid somewhere, but I just can't figure it out.
Any pointers to help me get this right would be VERY much appreciated.

[Anon]

Dude, this is what I would suggest for you...

1. compile php together with apache as a static module - it should work better. I installed apache_1.3.17 with php4.0.4pl1 and that configuration works flawlessly.

I am not going to tell you how to do it, because INSTALL file in the php4.0.4pl4 directory gives precise instructions on how to do that.

Another suggestion is to try to configure mysql without specifying directory location...

./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs

Hope that helps,

Di