Building 5.2.12 w/MySQL on RedHat 64bit

[Rob Tanner <rtanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Building 5.2.12 w/MySQL on RedHat 64bit

Hi,

I am trying to build PHP 5.2.12 on RHEL ES5 (the latest and greatest Redhat) 64bit.  Why do I want to build PHP when Redhat  includes PHP?  The distro includes PHP 5.1.6 and our CMS (ModX) doesn’t get along with 5.1.6 because of errors in the PDO layer.

Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, when I run the configure, I get the error:

checking for MySQL support... yes
checking for specified location of the MySQL UNIX socket... no
checking for MySQL UNIX socket location... no
configure: error: Cannot find libmysqlclient under /usr.
Note that the MySQL client library is not bundled anymore!

The libmysqlclient libs are in /usr/lib64 and not /usr/lib (which contains 32 bit libs).

I have tried simply —with-mysql, —with-mysql=/usr/lib64 and —with-mysql=/usr/lib64/mysql.  Any idea how to successfully tell configure where to look?

Thanks,
Rob



Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville Oregon