RE: [PHP-DEV] ./configure, PHP, SuSE and the AMD64

> > For #2, per Robert Silva's post: > > > > "For #2, I believe he is referring to searching LD_LIBRARY_PATH > > directories for libraries rather than hardcoding /lib everywhere (which > > is how its done now)." > > Unfortunately it's not that easy from what I remember. > > > > with as it is common to specify the install root dir which we've been > > > doing for ages. > > > > Supplying the install root is fine, but as we've seen, it's not always > > right and doesn't work. For a lib that's installed into /usr/lib64, > > what's the install root? > > /usr of course. Right, but that's still wrong. Since lib is hardcoded, it'll be searching /usr/lib, which is not the place that's to be used. Thus, it's not always good enough to just allow the install root dir to be specified - sometimes, per my #3, a specific directory needs to be used. > > Hehe, fair enough - let me know if you need another account (this has > > SuSE). How are things looking so far? > > AFAIK Joe is going to commit his patch, but we need to "fix" it for the > PECL extensions too if applicable. Ok, sounds good - I'm looking forward to getting this sucker compiled once and for all :) H