About debugging in PHP
Note: PHP5 has a zillion dependencies on libxml, it is not practical to disable it, you must install it.
libxml can be found here: http://www.xmlsoft.org/
But this is actualy a good thing; "Almost everything regarding XML support was rewritten for PHP 5".
For more info see: http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php
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codeslinger at compsalot dot com
30-Nov-2006 10:26
30-Nov-2006 10:26
jovcic ate gseis stop ucla stop edu
09-Jul-2005 03:26
09-Jul-2005 03:26
If you'e compiling a shared extension (e.g. pspell) whose libs & headers are not in the usual place, use the following:
--with-pspell=shared,/my/custom/path/to/pspell/
Took me forever to figure out, since Google had no answer for me.
joerg at fenin dot de
14-Apr-2005 09:15
14-Apr-2005 09:15
If some options do not become active after doing a configure; make; make install, try to do a make clean after configure. That worked for me when enabling memory limts (--enable-memory-limit).
17-Jan-2004 12:33
>/usr/local/lib needs to be listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, but it should already
>be there on most systems. The above notes all apply to Linux only,
>but may be useful on other platforms as well
It is much simpler just to put /usr/local/pgsql/lib into /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig.
steve at njord dot org
06-Oct-2003 02:32
06-Oct-2003 02:32
If you're trying to build with --with-imap and your uw-imap stuff is built SSLTYPE=nopwd then you will fail the "Checking if IMAP works" check if you don't also build with --with-imap-ssl
Another hour and a half of my life lost to find that one.
Steve
squeeNoSpam at NoSpamAddress dot com
14-Aug-2002 09:06
14-Aug-2002 09:06
[Editor's note: The reason why some general options for the "configure" scripts are not documented is that said script is part of the GNU autoconf tools, and as such its general options are documented elsewhere, e.g.: http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf/index.html and http://www.airs.com/ian/configure/. Some are also documented in the INSTALL file that comes with the source distribution.]
The --prefix=PREFIX configure option isn't mentioned here. It apparently defaults to /usr/local, and sets the position of the php includes and libs. (in PREFIX/include/php and PREFIX/lib/php)
tysonlt from web_SPAMOFF_media com au
15-Apr-2002 07:42
15-Apr-2002 07:42
RE: Servlet support, I found that you need to configure --with-servlet=/usr/local/tomcat/common.
I found checking the configure script (always a good idea) that it looks for {dir_prefix}/lib/servlet.jar file, and this is found in the tomcat/common directory.
Hope this helps a bit!
tsaberi at home dot com
15-Sep-2001 11:05
15-Sep-2001 11:05
I tried compiling PHP from source with PostgreSQL support (./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql) and ran into a bunch of problems when trying to 'make'. The problem was that some of the PostgreSQL headers were not installed by default when I installed PostgreSQL from source. When installing PostgreSQL make sure you 'make install-all-headers' after you 'make install'.
ceo at l-i-e dot com
14-Aug-2001 09:05
14-Aug-2001 09:05
--enable-sigchild is only relevent to users of Oracle who are having <defunc> processes.
petrov at rice dot edu
03-Nov-2000 07:27
03-Nov-2000 07:27
If you are building with --with-pgsql=/some/dir, make sure that you still have libpq loaded up by ldconfig. I compiled and installed postgres from the tarball and then had to manually create the symlinks in /usr/local/lib. In particular, after you have built and installed postgres, you need to do the following (presuming you installed to /usr/local/pgsql):
# cd /usr/local/lib
# ln -s ../pgsql/lib/libpq.so.2.1 libpq.so.2.1
# ln -s ../pgsql/lib/libpq.so.2.1 libpq.so.2
# ln -s ../pgsql/lib/libpq.so.2.1 libpq.so
# ldconfig
/usr/local/lib needs to be listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, but it should already be there on most systems. The above notes all apply to Linux only, but may be useful on other platforms as well.
--sam