PHP 4.0 Bug #4633: Compile fails with RUSAGE errors

From: jim.dabell@graffiti.net Operating system: Slackware Linux 7.0; Kernel 2.4.0-test1; i686 PHP version: 4.0 Latest CVS (27/05/2000) PHP Bug Type: Compile Failure Bug description: Compile fails with RUSAGE errors I've seen two bugs in the database regarding this issue, but couldn't find any obvious way of appending to them, so I'm submitting this as a new bug report. On later 2.3.x and 2.4.x Linux kernels, the build fails, complaining about GETRUSAGE. The problem appears to lie inbetween autoconf and the kernel headers. From /usr/src/linux/include/linux/resource.h: /* * Definition of struct rusage taken from BSD 4.3 Reno * * We don't support all of these yet, but we might as well have them.... * Otherwise, each time we add new items, programs which depend on this * structure will lose. This reduces the chances of that happening. */ What seems to be happening is that autoconf checks the kernel headers, finds the rusage defines, and reports that the OS supports rusage, when in actual fact it doesn't. I worked around this by configuring php, editing config.cache to indicate rusage wasn't supported, reconfiguring, and carrying on from there. There's probably an easier way of doing it, but that worked for me. Hope this helps, Jim