Bug #3950: libphp3.so with MySQL doesn't work unless mysql directory specified

From: smuskiew@baynetworks.com Operating system: Red Hat Linux 6.1 PHP version: 3.0.15 PHP Bug Type: Installation problem Bug description: libphp3.so with MySQL doesn't work unless mysql directory specified I'm not sure if this is a build or a documentation problem (or a little of both): if you try to build PHP as an Apache DSO on a Red Hat Linux 6.1 install (with apache and apache-devel-1.3.9-8 rpms) and the standard MySQL rpms from www.mysql.net (3.22.30-1) and don't explicitly specify the path to mysql to configure, ie.: ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql then it still builds a libphp3.so, but when you try to start Apache with it, the httpd process refuses to start (no error messages or warnings, either). However, if you specify "--with-mysql=/usr", then the libphp3.so builds and works just fine. I know there have been other bug reports that say that you need to specify a directory for --with-mysql, but in this case if you don't, you don't get any errors from the build process (nor from Apache) - the libphp3.so gets built but it just doesn't work. Which is pretty confusing when you try to debug the problem... :-0