Cannot compile PHP4 on RHEL5, 'mysql headers not found'

lefty.crupps · 01-27-2009, 11:24 AM

NOTE: Thread is SOLVED, see last post.

Trying to migrate our current older RH box to a new install, but we require Apache2 and PHP4 for whatever reason with the way the sites etc are set up. MySQL and other software is OK'd to be newest release.

I was able to install from source the Apache2.0 without issues. However, I cannot compile successfully the PHP 4.4.9. Anyone able to assist me? I've been all over the web looking for prebuild binaries but not having much luck. My mysql-devel packages are installed.

I've tried changing the --with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql part (to point elsewhere) but its not been successful either.

Code:

[root@machine php-4.4.9]# yum install mysql-devel mysql
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin, rhnplugin, security
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package mysql-devel-5.0.45-7.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
Package mysql-5.0.45-7.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

[root@machine php-4.4.9]# ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/php_4.4.9/ –with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache_2.0.63/bin/apxs –with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql –with-gd –with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib –with-curl –with-openssl –with-zlib –enable-sockets –enable-memory-limit –with-dom –with-dom-xslt –with-dom-exslt –with-ncurses –enable-dbx –enable-dio –enable-experimental-zts –enable-ftp
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checking for int8… no
checking base type of last arg to accept… socklen_t
checking return type of qsort… void
configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under /usr/include/mysql

[root@machine php-4.4.9]#

bathory · 01-27-2009, 04:53 PM

Change "–with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql" to just "–with-mysql=/usr" and see if that helps.

Regards

lefty.crupps · 01-28-2009, 12:12 PM

I swear that I had tried that, but I got no complaints this round, so thank you very much, bathory!!

For future viewers, it was indeed needed to change the configure to read like this (below); I also had to make clean before it would rerun make:

Code:

cd /usr/src/misc/php-4.4.9

make clean

./configure  --prefix=/usr/local/php_4.4.9/ --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache_2.0.63/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-curl --with-openssl --with-zlib --enable-sockets --enable-memory-limit --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --with-dom-exslt --with-ncurses --enable-dbx --enable-dio --enable-experimental-zts --enable-ftp

make

make install

EDIT: This issue is SOLVED but I don't know how to mark that...