Re: php-4.4.* on x86_64

[Michael Kress <kress@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Michael

Vera, Michael schrieb:
> You will have to send us the exact hardware you have so we can solve the
> issue ;)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kress [mailto:kress@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:21 PM
> To: php-install list
> Subject:  php-4.4.* on x86_64
>
> hi there, I've got a dual xeon x86_64 and I got centos-4.4 installed on 
> it (it's actually a XenU machine). Centos-4.4 comes with php-4.3 but for
>
> some reason I have to install php-4.4. Now my problem is that I can't 
> get the thing compiled. I tried with this package:
> http://3es.atomicrocketturtle.com/packages/php/php-4.4.4-1.art.src.rpm
> which compiles and works perfectly on i386 but it fails to compile on 
> x86_64. Unfortunately it's no longer supported by art.
>
> So I played around a little bit with that src.rpm i.e. I built 
> lib64-patches because during configure phase there were lots of 'not 
> found messages'. I made the beast find my lib64 stuff i.e. I modified 
> all the config.m4 files in the ext subdirs, I even changed libtool from 
> 1.5 to 1.4 (which seems to be a requirement), but after all, I couldn't 
> compile it as more and more errors arose.
>
> Then I tried plain php i.e. the tar.gz, but even that didn't lead me to 
> a successfully built binary, there were these lib64 issues, so even the 
> plain tar.gz showed up that it still has to be patched.
>
> Any suggestions, how can I get php compiled on the x86_64 architecture?
> Is there any comprehensive guide on how to set up a build environment 
> for php(-4.4)?
> Has anybody successfully built an rpm for php-4.4 for centos-4?
> Of course, an rpm would be my preference in order to keep the system 
> capable of being updated easily.
>
> TIA
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>   

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