#22989 [NEW]: mail() not discovered by configure

From: iguy at ionsphere dot org Operating system: Redhat 8.0 PHP version: 4.3.1 PHP Bug Type: *Compile Issues Bug description: mail() not discovered by configure On my RedHat 8.0 system I am running exim & apache 2.0 with the default autoconf of 2.53-8. When issuing the ./buildconf, ./configure <insert zillion options here> configure does not find sendmail in the path given to it. That is because of a bug in the autoconf 2.53 code base where AC_PROG_PATH does not properly search through non-expanded parameters passed to the search string. ie. $PATH:/usr/sbin -> it will search through the properly expanded $PATH but will not search in /usr/sbin. As such I would like ot recommend this patch which should work with 2.13 & all versions of autoconf going forward. diff -Naur php-4.3.1.org/aclocal.m4 php-4.3.1/aclocal.m4 --- php-4.3.1.org/aclocal.m4 2003-02-16 08:56:17.000000000 -0700 +++ php-4.3.1/aclocal.m4 2003-03-31 12:14:24.000000000 -0700 @@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ ]) AC_DEFUN([PHP_PROG_SENDMAIL],[ -AC_PATH_PROG(PROG_SENDMAIL, sendmail,[], $PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib) +PHP_ALT_PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/ucblib:/usr/lib +AC_PATH_PROG(PROG_SENDMAIL, sendmail,[], $PATH:$PHP_ALT_PATH) if test -n "$PROG_SENDMAIL"; then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SENDMAIL,1,[whether you have sendmail]) fi -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22989&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=22989&r=gnused