Re: --with-pdflib... stops on show_boxed

I have had this same error - EXACTLY! If someone can help. Please do. > From: mordru@adelphia.net (Andrew Apold) > Newsgroups: php.install > Date: 24 Apr 2001 10:52:31 -0700 > Subject: [PHP-INST] --with-pdflib... stops on show_boxed > > I've seen in the annotations and other places at least a dozen other > people have > this problem.... and about a dozen different solutions from using links, > using > a new pdf.c, omitting png support, or even installing an rpm... none of > them > seem to help my situation. > > > > I'm using php 4.04pl1., the 11 january (latest AFAIK). > > Suse linux distribution, 2.4 kernal > > pdflib 4.0.0. > > Someone suggested using the binary on pdflib's site, tried that, > also no go. Weird, though, the pdflib-4.0.0-Linux.tar.gz file > they have as a binary contains files who go to a pdflib-3.0.0 > directory. Either way, that didn't help. > > Every time configure pdflib with > > ./configure --enable-shared --enable-shared-pdflib --enable-php > > when I tried the binary, that version didn't seem to have an > --enable-php > configure option. Regardless, it is supposed to be enabled by default. > > As far as I can tellthe shared stuff goes to /usr/local/lib, which is > where php looks for it by default. > > I configure, make, make test, as per instructions. Tried a make install > too to ee fi that would help. > > Run ldconfig, as various accounts of this error claim this will solve > it. > > then in php directory, using the new pdf.c from cvs places in > .../ext/pdf, > do a ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs --with-pdflib > > Samne response every time: > > checking whether to include Pdflib 3.x support... yes > checking for PDF_show_boxed in -lpdf... (cached) no > > earlier ones didn't have the cached I think. hmmm. maybe it isn't > rechecking with all my latest attempts? > > configure: error: pdflib extension requires at least pdflib 3.x. You > may also need libtiff and libjpeg. If so > > and it cuts off right there. > > I had this thing working under php3 and an older pdflib about a month or > two ago (server rebuilt since then). > Back then I did it without jpeg or tiff libraries, too. The stuff I'm > doing doesn't require them. > > Regardless, I have both libtiff and libjpeg installed, following links > to them from pdflib.com's website. > Have zlib installed. > > I'm at wits end with this one, been over a week I've not been able to > get it working. Half a mind to > try clibpdf, though it would mean altering all my php files... > > > oh, if I try --with-pdflib=/usr/local/lib, it compiles through without > error, but > looking back on the log it says: > > checking whether to include Pdflib 3.x support... no > > so it compiles, but is no use, no support. > > any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > PHP Install Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-install-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-install-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >