Hi,

I was trying to install the latest version PHP-5.4.5 from scratch onto my Ubuntu Server 12.04 32bit.

After running configuration as follows
./configure CFLAGS=-liconv --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-iconv ...

I received an error with the following message
configure: error: in '/usr/src/php-5.4.5':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

I then checked in config.log and found this line
/usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: cannot find -liconv
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I wonder if anyone might be able to help me out. Already tried to install libiconv-hook-dev but this did not help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

I think you'll need to install the libc6-dev package http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libc6-dev

Thank you for your reply.

No, it seems to have been installed already.

libc6-dev is already the newest version
libc6-dev set to manually installed

Could it be something to do with the CC compiler?

gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
configure:3850: $? = 0
configure:3839: cc -V >&5
cc: error: unrecognized option '-V'
cc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3850: $? = 4
configure:3839: cc -qversion >&5
cc: error: unrecognized option '-qversion'
cc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3850: $? = 4
configure:3870: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3892: cc -liconv conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3896: $? = 1
configure:3934: result: no

Tried to google that up but so far no luck.

Thank you

I think cc is not gcc in your case, try type cc or which cc. Maybe you need to set PATH or set a variable for configure