PHP 4.0 Bug #4814: ./configuration --with-apxs=/home/www/bin/apxs

From: xgote@rocket-arena.com Operating system: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Dec 30 02:57:15 GMT 1999 PHP version: 4.0.0 Release PHP Bug Type: Installation problem Bug description: ./configuration --with-apxs=/home/www/bin/apxs ./configure --with-apxs=/home/www/bin/apxs --enable-versioning --with-mysql --enable-track-vars Here is what the script looks like from my end: loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsdelf3.4 checking for bison... bison -y checking bison version... 1.28 (ok) checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for AIX... no checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for ranlib... ranlib checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for flex... flex checking for flex... (cached) flex checking for yywrap in -lfl... yes checking lex output file root... lex.yy checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes checking for working const... yes checking for pthreads_cflags... -pthread checking for pthreads_lib... Configuring SAPI modules checking for AOLserver support... no checking for Apache module support via DSO through APXS... Usage: apxs -g [-S <var>=<val>] -n <modname> apxs -q [-S <var>=<val>] <query> ... apxs -c [-S <var>=<val>] [-o <dsofile>] [-D <name>[=<value>]] [-I <incdir>] [-L <libdir>] [-l <libname>] [-Wc,<flags>] [-Wl,<flags>] <files> ... apxs -i [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ... apxs -e [-S <var>=<val>] [-a] [-A] [-n <modname>] <dsofile> ... configure: error: Sorry, I cannot run apxs. Either you need to install Perl or you need to pass the absolute path of apxs by using --with-apxs=/absolute/path/to/apxs [root@www phpsrc]#