fixed. i downloaded the source from php.net and it works now... the previous source i had came from apt system. maybe the source is patched ? if i'm not the only one to have had this problem, let me know, i'll mail the debian maintener thanks, On Monday 25 October 2004 19:19, Pierre Ancelot wrote: > Hi ! > > I am having some trouble creating a php extension. > as show in the documentation i did a ./ext_skel --extname=mymodule > which created the directory mymodule > i edited the config.m4 file to tune it to something very basic : > > PHP_ARG_WITH(mymodule, for mymodule support, > [ --with-mymodule Include mymodule support]) > if test "$PHP_MYMODULE" != "no"; then > PHP_NEW_EXTENSION(mymodule, mymodule.c, $ext_shared) > fi > > > saved and went to the base of the source tree... > > > pierre@debian:/usr/src/php4-4.3.9$ ./buildconf > You should not run buildconf in a release package. > use buildconf --force to override this check. > pierre@debian:/usr/src/php4-4.3.9$ ./buildconf --force > Forcing buildconf > using default Zend directory > buildconf: checking installation... > buildconf: autoconf version 2.59 (ok) > buildconf: Your version of autoconf likely contains buggy cache code. > Running cvsclean for you. > To avoid this, install autoconf-2.13 and automake-1.5. > buildconf: libtool version 1.5.6 (ok) > rebuilding configure > autoconf/programs.m4:438: AC_DECL_YYTEXT is expanded from... > configure.in:147: the top level > pierre@debian:/usr/src/php4-4.3.9$ > > > then, i been looking up if the module was taken > > pierre@debian:/usr/src/php4-4.3.9$ ./configure --help | grep -i mymodule > pierre@debian:/usr/src/php4-4.3.9$ > > > and.... no, it's not.... any idea ? something i did wrong ? > > > thank you :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php