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

Hi Ash; I did not have bzip2-devel installed. After installing that I made more progress. Thanks, Ken On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > > 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