#37855 [NEW]: ./buildconf fails without obvious warning

From: bens at effortlessis dot com Operating system: CentOS 4.x PHP version: 4.4.2 PHP Bug Type: *Compile Issues Bug description: ./buildconf fails without obvious warning Description: ------------ Buildconf fails to operate as needed - it does not write a new ./configure script. Therefore, installing new extensions (such as php-template, http://php-templates.sourceforge.net) is not possible. PHP release 4.3.4 is the last release I'm able to get working. Although there's a warning about cache code, I'm running a LATER than recommended release of autoconf! Reproduce code: --------------- /bin/sh; # tar -zxvf php-4.4.2.tgz; # cd php-4.4.2; # ./buildconf --force; Expected result: ---------------- [root@kepler php-4.3.4]# ./buildconf --force Forcing buildconf using default Zend directory buildconf: checking installation... buildconf: autoconf version 2.59 (ok) buildconf: Your version of autoconf likely contains buggy cache code. Running cvsclean for you. To avoid this, install autoconf-2.13 and automake-1.5. buildconf: libtool version 1.5.6 (ok) rebuilding configure autoconf/programs.m4:438: AC_DECL_YYTEXT is expanded from... configure.in:147: the top level rebuilding main/php_config.h.in autoheader: WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot' autoheader: WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in' autoheader: WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged. autoheader: autoheader: WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and autoheader: WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without autoheader: WARNING: `acconfig.h': autoheader: autoheader: WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_FUNC_MAIN], 1, autoheader: [Define if a function `main' is needed.]) autoheader: autoheader: WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the autoheader: WARNING: documentation. autoconf/programs.m4:438: AC_DECL_YYTEXT is expanded from... configure.in:147: the top level Actual result: -------------- [root@kepler php-4.4.2]# ./buildconf --force Forcing buildconf using default Zend directory buildconf: checking installation... buildconf: autoconf version 2.59 (ok) buildconf: Your version of autoconf likely contains buggy cache code. Running cvsclean for you. To avoid this, install autoconf-2.13. [root@kepler php-4.4.2]# -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=37855&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37855&r=mysqlcfg