PHP 4.0 Bug #6209: in some cases configure needs to be runned as root

From: sozzi@netw.it Operating system: Linux 2.2.16-3 (RedHat 6.2) PHP version: 4.0.1pl2 PHP Bug Type: Installation problem Bug description: in some cases configure needs to be runned as root We've runned into some troubles while configuring php on Linux platform with imap support. (the configure line was: ./configure --with-mysql --with-apache=../apache_1.3.12 --enable-track-vars --with-xml --with-imap ) The script configure needs to be runned as root as long as it tries to create some symbolic links in system directories. ( ln -s "$IMAP_DIR/c-client/c-client.a" "$IMAP_DIR/c-client/libc-client.a" >/dev/null 2>&1 ) Many users (like me) are used to run configure as normal users and they don't get any message about the missing links until they try to run make and see that something's missing ... the only way I found to understand what happened is to check the configure script.