Re: "undefined symbol: compress" during install?

At 05:58 PM 3/11/2002 -0500, Erik Price wrote:

Ho! I have just RTFG'd, which I wish I had done before posting. Looks like I have omitted the --with-zlib parameter in the ./configure of PHP. I had it last time b/c I was following a tutorial, and omitted it this time since I didn't think I needed it. Actually, I had no idea what the zlib did for PHP so I figured why bother.

Supposedly this is a RedHat 7.2 "bug" (don't know if it's strictly a bug per se, but it's only required with RH 7.2). I know because I've compiled PHP on both RH 7.0 and 7.1 and the --with-zlib was not required. I just about pulled my hair out trying to resolve the issue and I decided to look on bugs.php.net where I found the solution. bugs.php.net is extremely helpful for stuff like this, (even though strictly speaking those types of things shouldn't be submitted as bugs) and I don't think enough people out there know to check it. It's actually helped me out on 2-3 occasions...