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

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:40 AM, 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Try installing libbz2 and libbz2-dev again: apt-get install libbz2 apt-get install libbz2-dev