Re: configure problems with GD

Fortunately, after a lot of investigation I can report back on this. I have been through about 10 cycles of rebuilding the server from scratch to a standard build. (it's a rented dedicated server with an option to 're-install operating system') I can now successfully rebuild using 5.2.5. Having been through many options, I think the configuration that made the difference was to configure libjpeg with ./configure --enable-shared --enable-static to ensure creating all neccessary files. To prevent an error ('can't find -ltdl') make sure mcrypt is configured/built with --enable-ltdl-install This error only seems to occur when building with mysql and is not picked up during 'configure'. I now have a good script that will build and install the following from source: zlib lincurl libpng libjpeg libxml2 openssl mhash libmcrypt libncurses (essential for mysql) mysql and of course, php! I have successfully tested for php versions 5.2.4 and 5.2.5 My most recent tests have been run on a Fedora 6 server. If there is demand I'd be happy to publish a page with the contents of my entire installation scripts. ""Mike Price"" <hk@hersham.net> wrote in message news:2C.01.53970.E0CEDE74@pb1.pair.com... >> You need to compile PHP last against Apache and MySQL. There's no need to >> compile MySQL - just use the pre-compiled statically linked binary. PHP >> is the 'glue' to connect everything together last. So if you compile >> Apache first, then install the MySQL binary, then compile PHP last >> against these, you might be up and running then. >> >> HTH >> >> Keith Roberts > > Thanks for the reply. > > As reported in Jamie Harris' thread <<PHP 5.2.5 Build Errors,?XML linking > problem>>, I found that using the identical configure options, 5.2.4 > configure and make behaved perfectly. > > Something in 5.2.5 configure has gone wrong as a result of compiling > Apache (or zlib or something....). Whatever it was, it has not interfered > with configure for 5.2.4. > > Maybe I should do a 'diff' on the two versions of configure? > > As for compiling MySQL I tried it a few years ago and gave up. It was an > absolute pleasure to find I could take the latest binaries and compile it > first time with no problems at all. > > Mike >