Hey,

I'm installing PHP and uhh.. when I type in ./configure

pentium:~/download/php-5.0.2# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

so obviously, i 'apt-get install gcc'.

Now, it's saying

pentium:~/download/php-5.0.2# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

How would I allow GCC compiler ot create executables?
-The Pentium Guy

Blah... I got thta to work, installed g++.

Now i'm getting MORE errors.
pentium:~/download/php-5.0.2# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking for re2c... exit 0;
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for mawk... mawk
checking for bison... bison -y
checking bison version... 1.875 (ok)
checking for flex... lex
checking for yywrap in -ll... no
checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 2418: lex: command not found
configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up

You'll need to install flex:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/flex

Actually I got it it to work by simply:
apt-get install apache php4.

unfortunately php5 didn't work :P.
-The Pentium Guy