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

HI Aziz; Thank you, I ran yum install bzip2-devel and it went further. Thanks, Ken On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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