Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #5947 Updated: configure program looks form "libc-client.a" (IMAP) and not for "c-client.a"

From: Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:00:12 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #5947 Updated: configure program looks form "libc-client.a" (IMAP) and not for "c-client.a"
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> ID: 5947 > User Update by: guerrero@educa1.upc.es > Status: Closed > Bug Type: Installation problem > Description: configure program looks form "libc-client.a" (IMAP) and not for > "c-client.a" > > I installed c-client library for myselve and my PHP documentation references that library as > c-client.a (IMAP section) and not libc-client.a Yes, and that is incorrect which is why every package of this library fixes this and why it is documented at http://www.php.net/manual/ref.imap.php that you need to fix this and why PHP's configure script has this check: if test -r "$IMAP_DIR/c-client/c-client.a"; then ln -s "$IMAP_DIR/c-client/c-client.a" "$IMAP_DIR/c-client/libc-client.a" >/dev/null 2>&1 elif test -r "$IMAP_DIR/lib/c-client.a"; then ln -s "$IMAP_DIR/lib/c-client.a" "$IMAP_DIR/lib/libc-client.a" >/dev/null 2>&1 fi So, PHP does try to fix this for you if you haven't fixed it yourself. But, you probably weren't running ./configure as root, so it was unable to create this symlink -Rasmus

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