PHP 4.0 Bug #7003: configure not setting -L for extras (like png, tiff, etc.)

From: swenson@heronetwork.com Operating system: OpenBSD 2.7 & SuSE PHP version: 4.0.2 PHP Bug Type: Compile Problem Bug description: configure not setting -L for extras (like png, tiff, etc.) After unpacking the distribution running ./configure with any of these options: --with-png-dir[=DIR] --with-tiff-dir[=DIR] --with-mm[=DIR] The configure script is failing to find libgd, libpng, etc. After examining the configure script and the config.log I found that for these options: --with-ds-dir[=DIR] --with-jpeg-dir[=DIR] The $LIBS variable is getting properly set to "-L[DIR] -l<option>". But, for the above options (and a few more I think) the $LIBS variable is only getting set to "-l<option>". So when configure attempts to confirm the option is present it 'ld' can not find the library and the option is not activated. The easiest work around is to copy the apropriate libs into /usr/lib temporarily for the compile. Another work around is to edit the configure script and find all the places '[=DIR]' is not getting included and adding the '-L' option to the $LIBS variable.