Re: PHP installation: need point added to docs.

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D. wrote: > Dear Fellow PHPers, > > In yet another of our billion builds of PHP 4, we have realized > that there is another issue that should be clarified in the installation > documents (or, perhaps, that the installation process needs to be > modified). It appears that when one builds PHP as a CGI (standalone), > modifications are made to the source tree that prevent it from being > installed subsequently as an Apache module -- PHP builds but it can > not be installed -- the process dies dealing with the make target > install-sapi. Somehow the installation process appears to want to > find libraries in a directory named libs (which was used for the > CGI build) rather than in .libs, which is the directory normally used > for the module build. Probably something in the environment is being > irreversiably modified during the CGI build, but we have not been able > to determine what it is. Either this glitch should be fixed, or the > installation documents should make it clear that you must start with a > fresh copy of the source tree. Please give us further information: * PHP version * Apache version * Platform A detailed description would also be helpful. I cannot reproduce it by running: $ ./configure $ make $ make clean $ ./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.12 $ make $ make install - Sascha