Re: Unable to compile PHP-7.3.0

On Mon, 2018-12-24 at 23:45 +0100, Christoph M. Becker wrote: > On 24.12.2018 at 17:31, John wrote: > > > The libc-client library was installed yesterday (by dnf download from > > Fedora) > > because it is needed for imap support which is the reason I'm re-installing > > PHP. > > I have PHP 7.2.9 running at the moment and there was no problem with that > > installation but it doesn't have imap support installed. > > Hmm, did you install a libc-client-*devel* package? A libc-client > package is not sufficient to compile the extension. > > > I copied the link that you referenced and it is identical to the config..m4 > > file > > in the PHP 7.3.0 distribution that I downloaded. From your note I think > > that > > you feel that this patch is not complete but I don't know how to check. I > > am > > willing to try any suggestions that you might have. > > My point is (that I think) that configure does not properly check > whether the necessary stuff is installed, and may yield a strange error > message otherwise (“error: utf8_mime2text() has new signature, but > U8T_CANONICAL is missing.”), instead of clearly stating that required > headers or the actual library are missing. If I'm right, this would be > a bug (in my opinion), and should be fixed. ============================================ Yes, I had thought of that but Fedora doesn't have a libc-client-devel (or dev) available so I figured there must not be one. At your suggestion, I did a web search and the correct library name is "uw-imap-devel" and I installed that.. Now when I compile the error is "cannot find imap library (libc-client.a) please check your c-client installation. This is correct, the libc-client installtion from Fedora didn't create a .a file, just libc-client.so. That is what I would have expected so I'll have to debug that separately, but heck, it's a holiday today and I have company coming in about an hour, so I'll do it tomorrow! dnf doesn't report any libc-client.a on the repository either. Wouldn't this be the output from the compiler? Merry Christmas Christoph, and thanks again for the help. I suspect I will need more! John