Re: Can't install PHP > 5.2.0

[Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Doug Tabacco wrote:

> To: php-install@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: Doug Tabacco <tabacco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  Can't install PHP > 5.2.0
>
> Hi there!
>
> So right now I'm running PHP 5.2.0.  I'd very much like to move up to
> 5.2.5 to take advantage of fixes and so forth, but I'm having some
> trouble.  When I try to 'make install' any version of PHP newer than
> 5.2.0, Apache will die quietly on startup, without logging any errors,
> no matter how verbose I set logging.  If I then re-'make install' 5.2.0,
> it works great again.  I can recompile 5.2.0 with different options,
> different versions of libraries, or pretty much anything and it keeps
> working.
>
> Obviously, I can't provide much in the way of debug output from apache,
> but I'll try to give some basic info here.  If anyone has ideas or wants
> to see longer stuff like configure output, just let me know.
>
> The OS: Redhat EL4
> The Apache: Apache/2.0.52 (from RHN RPMs)
> The uname -a: Linux telltalegames 2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jan 18
> 05:00:58 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Configure options:
> ./configure --with-gd --enable-magic-quotes --with-pear --with-regex
> --with-zlib-dir=/usr/include --with-mysql=/usr/lib/mysql
> --with-pgsql=/usr/lib/pgsql --disable-url-fopen-wrapper
> --with-config-file-path=/ --with-gettext --with-imap=/usr/include/imap
> --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl
> --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/include/freetype2 --enable-gd-native-ttf
> --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs
> --with-mcrypt=/usr/local/lib/ --with-curl
>
>
> No errors reported during ./configure or make.  I've tried 'make clean'
> just to be sure, and as for 'make test', there's some bonus story to
> tell (a possible clue)...
>
> On versions > 5.2.0, adding the --with-config-file-path=/etc option
> seems to break something.  When that option is included, 'make test'
> does this:
>
> ---------------
> [tabacco@telltalegames php-5.2.5]# make test
>
> Build complete.
> Don't forget to run 'make test'.
>
> make: [test] Error 254 (ignored)
> [tabacco@telltalegames php-5.2.5]#
> ---------------
>
> If I then clean and recompile without that option, make test works
> normally.  Either way, though, the same thing happens when I install the
> results.  That error being caused by such a (seemingly) benign option
> seems pretty suspicious, though.

Not directly related to your problem. Would it help you to 
use the --prefix=/path/to/your/php/installation option to 
configure? That way you will not be overwriting your 
previous working installation of PHP.

You might also want to use --with-readline , to allow you 
to use the PHP CLI interactively, like a BASIC interpreter.

Here is the contents of my config.nice file, if it helps:

#! /bin/sh
#
# Created by configure

'./configure' \
'--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache-2.2.6/bin/apxs' \
'--prefix=/usr/local/php-5.2.4' \
'--bindir=/usr/local/bin' \
'--enable-shared=all' \
'--without-pear' \
'--with-mysql=shared,/usr/local/mysql-5.0.45' \
'--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/databases/mysql/mysql.sock' \
'--with-mysqli=shared,/usr/local/mysql-5.0.45/bin/mysql_config' \
'--with-pgsql=/usr/local/postgresql-8.2.5/bin' \
'--with-xsl' \
'--with-zlib-dir=/usr/include' \
'--with-readline' \
"$@"

Regards,

Keith Roberts