Re: Building 5.2.12 w/MySQL on RedHat 64bit

[Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Where are the header files?  If you don't have the libs and headers
under a single top dir, then you will have to munge the
ext/mysql/config.m4 file to fix the check.  Or symlink appropriately.

-Rasmus

Rob Tanner wrote:
> 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
>