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ID: 17996 Comment by: brandon@oit.gatech.edu Reported By: lizambert@idris.fr Status: Closed Bug Type: Compile Failure Operating System: AIX 4.3.3 PHP Version: 4.3.0-dev New Comment: Our PHP 4.3.0 build failed to compile sapi/cli/php on our AIX machine, with over one hundred error messages like: cc: 1501-218 file ext/ctype/ctype.lo contains an incorrect file suffix The causes of this are rather subtle: 1. GNU libtool will usually not create static objects under AIX. 2. But the PHP developers want libtool to create static objects. 3. So the PHP developers provide their own ./libtool in the source tree which will create them, which they run with "/bin/sh libtool". 4. Unfortunately, while "/bin/sh <file>" usually looks for <file> in the current directory before searching through $PATH, on AIX it looks through $PATH first; thus the PHP Makefile winds up running /usr/local/bin/libtool (or wherever you have it installed) instead. Thus the solution is to modify the PHP Makefile so that the line LIBTOOL = $(SHELL) libtool --silent instead reads LIBTOOL = $(SHELL) ./libtool --silent Technical notes: When you compile and install libtool, it runs a script called libtool.m4 which, around line 2363 in the libtool-1.4.3 source, disables AIX static linking with the explanation that: "On AIX, shared libraries and static libraries use the same namespace, and are all built from PIC." It disables static linking by setting enable_static=no when it writes your libtool script; the ./libtool script in the PHP build directory works precisely because this variable is set to "yes" instead. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-12 06:39:33] josborne@imsmaxims.com Ignore that last post, being a bit of a muppet, using the wrong version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-12-12 04:25:10] josborne@imsmaxims.com I've exactly the same problem, same version of AIX etc. I have apache 2.0.43 installed and am using php 4.2.3. Is this a compiler issue? Or is it worth while trying 4.3.0RC3 I need to get this working fairly desperately. So any help is welcome. Thanks Julian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-08 13:07:58] sander@php.net This is not a problem in PHP, but a problem with your (configuration of your) system. Please ask support questions on the appropriate mailinglist. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-08 12:54:33] lizambert@idris.fr I would like to believe you but although it says "Target all is up to date" the file it is looking for (libs/libphp4.so) hasn't been created. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-08 11:58:16] kalowsky@php.net Glad to hear the bug is fixed, but your new problem is an end user problem, not a PHP bug. Please figure out your installation, and where you want things to go. If you still have trouble with that, ask on the php-general list for help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/17996 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17996&edit=1