Re: Unable to compile PHP 5.3.29 On CentOS 7.0: Configure complains about BZip2 not in expected location

On 15 October 2014 07:40:26 BST, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi; > > My first post about issues with compiling PHP... > >Unable to compile PHP 5.3.29 On CentOS 7.0: Configure complains about >BZip2 not in expected location > > I'm fairly good about the "configure; make; make install" dance for >open source software, but now and then I run into mysteries. > > I'm responsible for moving forwards an old PHP 5.3.3 (LAMP) dev and >production environment into the more modern age. The developers use >the abandoned "php-template" extension. I plan to move them forwards >into one of the more modern day PHP template engines (Haanga, Twig, >Blitz, etc) but first I need to move to a more recent platform and >then to a more recent version of PHP. > > I captured the output of "php -i" from the current dev system. In >that output is the configure syntax used to compile PHP. I used that >same syntax and received the following error from configure: > >checking for BZip2 support... yes >checking for BZip2 in default path... not found >configure: error: Please reinstall the BZip2 distribution > >I've checked and I do have bzip2 installed. > >I'm wondering if it is looking for contents of the bzip2-devel rpm? > >If necessary, I can provide the configure syntax that I used, but I'm >hoping that the question is sufficiently phrased to not need that. > >Thanks, >Ken Wolcott Do you have the bzip2 header files installed also? Thanks, Ash