Compile error w/ libextra.a (ranlib)

Hello, I am attempting to take over development and maintenance of a very neglected website (and with your donation of only 50¢ per day...). The site contained code which was originally thought to be some proprietary, modified version of PHP (which really pissed me off!)... but eventually it was discovered that this was merely the somewhat out of date and rarely seen _PHP2_ (phew, I guess...). So I need to get hosting support for this site up ASAP. I will need support for both PHP2 and PHP4 (which I will be converting the code to) and both msql and mysql (again, converting from the former to the latter). Seeing as how there are several hundred pages on the site, in various states of decay and coded by various individuals, batch replacements and regular expressions will not readily handle the conversion, thus necessitating the PHP2 and msql. I have one and only one server available for this site (including for my conversion development), thus necessitating the PHP4 and mysql. So I'm trying to compile apache w/ the following command (oh, did I mention I'm adding SSL too?): [root@machine apache_1.3.14]# SSL_BASE=../openssl-0.9.6 RSA_BASE=/rsaref-2.0/local ./configure --enable-module=ssl --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a --enable-module=php4 --activate-module=src/modules/extra/libphp.a --enable-module=php --prefix=/usr/local/apache --enable-shared=ssl ... configuration output... blah blah blah ... [root@machine apache_1.3.14]# make it goes through several directories compiling successfully, including /modules/php4 and modules/extra (which is where PHP2 is). Then I get the following error: gcc -c -I./os/unix -I./include -DLINUX=2 -DMOD_SSL=207101 -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1 -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/main -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/main -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/Zend -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/Zend -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/TSRM -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/TSRM -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1 -DEAPI -DUSE_EXPAT -I./lib/expat-lite ./apaci buildmark.c gcc -DLINUX=2 -DMOD_SSL=207101 -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1 -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/main -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/main -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/Zend -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/Zend -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/TSRM -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1/TSRM -I/usr/local/source/php-4.0.3pl1 -DEAPI -DUSE_EXPAT -I./lib/expat-lite ./apaci -rdynamic \ -o httpd buildmark.o modules.o modules/standard/libstandard.a modules/php4/libphp4.a modules/extra/libextra.a main/libmain.a ./os/unix/libos.a ap/libap.a lib/expat-lite/libexpat.a -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/Hughes/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -rdynamic -L/usr/local/Hughes/lib -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -Lmodules/php4 -L../modules/php4 -L../../modules/php4 -lmodphp4 -lpam - ldl -lmysqlclient -lz -lmsql -lgd -lresolv -lm -ldl -lcrypt -lnsl -lresolv -lm -lcrypt -ldl modules/extra/libextra.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [target_static] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/source/apache_1.3.14/src' make[1]: *** [build-std] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/source/apache_1.3.14' make: *** [build] Error 2 [root@machine apache_1.3.14]# Now, I've searched the archives and found references to the "modules/extra/libextra.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one" error... but no solution. The one exception was someone who was screwing up because they were trying to use libextra.a as part of a PHP3 install, not a PHP2 install. Duh. Unfortunately that's not the case here. Any assistance would be appreciated, and yes, I have tried the obvious: ranlib /path/to/modules/extra/libextra.a FWIW, this is ranlib version "GNU ranlib 2.9.5" Any assistance appreciated, TIA... -- Doug Taylor Lead Web Developer Enabled Sites 331 Soquel Ave, Suite 205 Santa Cruz, CA 95062