Bug #15838: Gettext library not linked in correctly?

From: corlette@huarp.harvard.edu Operating system: OpenBSD 2.8 PHP version: 4.1.2 PHP Bug Type: Dynamic loading Bug description: Gettext library not linked in correctly? Hi there, I'm trying to get PHP working with Horde, and running into problems. Basically, Horde says it requires "gettext". So, I downloaded the latest "gettext" from GNU, compiled and installed it in /opt/gettext. Then I compiled PHP with --with-gettext, e.g. ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local \ --with-apxs=/opt/apache/sbin/apxs \ --prefix=/opt/php --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \ --with-imap=/usr/local --with-gdbm --with-xml \ --with-mcrypt=/usr/local --with-gettext=/opt/gettext Compile seems to go fine, with a couple warnings of the form: *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by /usr/local/lib/libintl.la. *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when *** you link to this library. But I can only do this if you have a *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have. (also a similar warning for -lresolv; is this a problem?) OK, so, then I install PHP, install Horde, and start testing it. The test.php script provided by Horde seems to work fine and report everything working. I did some additional configuration, and everything stopped working; pages wouldn't load, etc etc. After a bit of digging, I finally found this error message in one of my server's error logs: /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_gettext" called from httpd:/opt/apache/libexec/libphp4.so at 0x4030 44f0 References to "gettext" appear in "libgettext.a" and "libintl.a", but pretty much nowhere else. So here's my guess: PHP is expecting gettext to be in a shared library. GNU gettext doesn't compile a shared library (I even added --enable-shared to the configure line for gettext, and still didn't get a ".so" style library, which I believe is what's needed). Thus, PHP can't find the gettext reference, and when Horde tries to use it, it craps out. About right? So the question is, how do I either a) get a shared gettext library b) compile gettext into PHP statically, or c) fix it some other way? Is this a problem with GNU gettext, PHP, or both, or some problem with the way I configured everything? I'd really appreciate some tips and advice; I can't believe this is really all that hard, so I must have done something wrong. What was supposed to be an afternoon project is turning into a week! Thanks in advance... -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=15838&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=15838&r=submittedtwice