Installing PHP from source and no php.ini

Mahmood Naderan <mahmood.nt@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 14 Mar 2020 00:04:31 +0330

I have installed php-5.3 from source on a VM containing Ubuntu 14.04. The build commands are

./configure --enable-fpm --with-curl --with-pdo-mysql=/path/to/mysql --withgd --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir
make
make test
sudo make install

While make test fails on some tests, the output of make install is

Installing PHP SAPI module:       cgi
Installing PHP CGI binary: /usr/local/bin/
Installing PHP CLI binary:        /usr/local/bin/
Installing PHP CLI man page:      /usr/local/man/man1/
Installing build environment:     /usr/local/lib/php/build/
Installing header files:          /usr/local/include/php/
Installing helper programs:       /usr/local/bin/
  program: phpize
  program: php-config
Installing man pages:             /usr/local/man/man1/
  page: phpize.1
  page: php-config.1
Installing PEAR environment:      /usr/local/lib/php/
[PEAR] Archive_Tar    - already installed: 1.3.12
[PEAR] Console_Getopt - already installed: 1.3.1
[PEAR] Structures_Graph- already installed: 1.0.4
[PEAR] XML_Util       - already installed: 1.2.3
[PEAR] PEAR           - already installed: 1.9.5
Wrote PEAR system config file at: /usr/local/etc/pear.conf
You may want to add: /usr/local/lib/php to your php.ini include_path

Problem is that I don't see any php.ini in anywhere, e.g. /. What does the last sentence mean?

You may want to add: /usr/local/lib/php to your php.ini include_path

Actually /usr/local/lib/php is a directory.

Regards,
Mahmood