Re: php configure problem

I'm not much more than a newbie myself, so caveat lector and all. The config.log is usually full of errors, that's how it works. configure compiles and runs a whole slew of little programs to see which ones work or don't work to give it a picture of your machine. The important bit is the last error before it stopped. In this case I'm guessing that would be "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdbm". So it can't find the gdbm library that you're requesting. Do you have it installed? If you do, is the library directory listed in /etc/ld.so.conf (assuming this is linux) and have you run ldconfig (I forget if that's the right name exactly) since you installed it? These two steps are necessary to put the library directory in ld's search path. Or you could drop the --with-gdbm and see how it goes. -Steve On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 01:17 PM, Bob wrote:

Hi Steve I'm a newbie so didn't know about the config.log file. Thanks for the hint. I have errors throughout the config.log and so I just included the whole thing. I've been searching through the web for info on this and reading up on it. When configuring, does it matter what order my options are listed? Maybe I'm grabbing at straws. The same php version is installed and I'm just using the ./configure found in phpinfo() so I don't know what I"m doing wrong. This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:1359: checking for a BSD compatible install configure:1412: checking whether build environment is sane

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configure:13371: checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm configure:13390: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -DLINUX=2 -DMOD_SSL=207101 -DEAPI -DUSE_EXPAT -L/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/ssl/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib conftest.c -lgdbm -lcurl -ldl -lcrypto -lssl -lcurl -lz -lcrypt -lssl -lssl -lcrypto -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl -lresolv 1>&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdbm collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure: failed program was: #line 13379 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error. */ /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2

    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */

char gdbm_open(); int main() { gdbm_open() ; return 0; } Steve Cayford wrote:

Does config.log have anything more about the error? -steve On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 06:28 AM, Bob wrote:

Hi everyone, if you can help me with this I would really appreciate it. If I configure php with this then it works: # ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --without-mysql --with-openssl=/usr --with-curl=/usr/local/lib But if I configure with this it gives me "configure: error: cannot find necessary header file(s)" How can I narrow this down to find out which header files it's talking about? # ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc --disable-debug --enable-pic --enable-shared --enable-inline-optimization --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-regex=system --with-zlib --with-gdbm --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png --with-ttf --with-layout=GNU --with-openssl=/usr --enable-debugger --enable-safe-mode --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem=shared --enable-sysvshm=shared --enable-track-vars --enable-magic-quotes --enable-mem-limit --enable-yp --enable-ftp --enable-wddx --without-mysql --with-imap=shared --without-unixODBC --without-oracle --without-oci8 --with-xml --with-curl [snip] Configuring extensions checking if the location of ZLIB install directory is defined... no checking whether to include ZLIB support... yes checking for gzgets in -lz... yes checking for fopencookie... yes checking for ASPELL support... no checking for bc style precision math functions... no checking for BZip2 support... no checking whether to enable calendar conversion support... no checking CCVS Support... no checking whether to include cpdflib support... no checking whether to include crack support... no checking whether to enable ctype support... no checking for CURL support... yes checking for CURL in default path... found in /usr/local checking for cURL greater than or equal to 7.8... libcurl 7.8.1 checking for curl_easy_perform in -lcurl... yes checking for CyberCash support... no checking for cybermut support... no checking whether to include old xDBM support... no checking whether to enable DBA... no checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... no configure: error: cannot find necessary header file(s) [this is where it stops] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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

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