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

Check your config.log for the reason why the compile test fails. Most likely some library missing.. --Jani On Thu, 3 May 2001, Charles Homan wrote: >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 >> > > >