[SOLVED] PHP 7.2 Error

I'm trying to build php 7.2xxx and get the error but I have the latest installed libpcre from current.

Configuring extensions
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking io.h usability... no
checking io.h presence... no
checking for io.h... no
checking for strtoll... yes
checking for atoll... yes
checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes
checking libxml2 install dir... /usr
checking for xml2-config path... /usr/bin/xml2-config
checking whether libxml build works... yes
checking for OpenSSL support... yes, shared
checking for Kerberos support... no
checking whether to use system default cipher list instead of hardcoded value... no
checking for RAND_egd... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for PCRE headers location... /usr/include
checking for PCRE library location... configure: error: Could not find libpcre.(a|so) in /usr

Is this on 14.2 or -current? On -current, there are actually 2 pcre packages, l/pcre-8.43 and l/pcre2-10.34. If you're on 14.2, only l/pcre is provided and pcre2 is available on SBo.

Either way, looking at the config.log might provide more insight on why it didn't work.

I have 14.2

pcre2-10.34-x86_64-1
pcre-8.39-x86_64-1

I had to split the logs because they were too big for the forum.

I run php-7.3x on all my platforms and it builds fine with pcre2 (currently using 10.33 from an SBo build).

Have you rebooted or run ld{config} since installing pcre2?

(Note: I haven't looked at your logs)

Originally Posted by astrogeek Have you rebooted or run ld since installing pcre2?

What is this ld you speak of? Never done it or don't recall doing it...Help !!!!!! Please !!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by PROBLEMCHYLD What is this ld you speak of? Never done it or don't recall doing it...Help !!!!!! Please !!!!!!!!!

I'm guessing "ldconfig", and you wouldn't need to run it manually because it's run automatically by installpkg.

Originally Posted by volkerdi I'm guessing "ldconfig", and you wouldn't need to run it manually because it's run automatically by installpkg.

Thanks for your response which means this is NOT the problem.

Did you use --with-pcre-regex=/usr on the configure command line? This overrides use of PHP's included PCRE library. Is there a reason you can't use the PCRE library that is supplied with PHP, which will always build successfully?

Originally Posted by ljb643 Did you use --with-pcre-regex=/usr on the configure command line? This overrides use of PHP's included PCRE library. Is there a reason you can't use the PCRE library that is supplied with PHP, which will always build successfully?

No I haven't but running php 7.1.33, I had to do no such thing. So why is 7.2.x different?

Originally Posted by ljb643 Did you use --with-pcre-regex=/usr on the configure command line? This overrides use of PHP's included PCRE library. Is there a reason you can't use the PCRE library that is supplied with PHP, which will always build successfully?

EXTENSION_DIR=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/php/extensions \
CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
./configure \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
  --with-libdir=lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
  --localstatedir=/var \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --datarootdir=/usr/share \
  --datadir=/usr/share \
  --infodir=/usr/info \
  --mandir=/usr/man \
  --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs \
  --enable-fpm \
  --with-fpm-user=apache \
  --with-fpm-group=apache \
  --enable-maintainer-zts \
  --enable-pcntl \
  --enable-mbregex \
  --enable-tokenizer=shared \
  --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d \
  --with-config-file-path=/etc \
  --with-layout=PHP \
  --disable-sigchild \
  --enable-xml \
  --with-libxml-dir=/usr \
  --with-xmlrpc=shared \
  --enable-simplexml \
  --enable-xmlreader=shared \
  --enable-dom=shared \
  --enable-filter \
  --disable-debug \
  --with-openssl=shared \
  --with-pcre-regex=/usr \
  --with-zlib=shared,/usr \
  --enable-bcmath=shared \
  --with-bz2=shared,/usr \
  --enable-calendar=shared \
  --enable-ctype=shared \
  --with-curl=shared \
  --with-mcrypt=/usr \
  --enable-dba=shared \
  --with-gdbm=/usr \
  --with-db4=/usr \
  --enable-exif=shared \
  --enable-ftp=shared \
  --with-gd=shared \
  --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
  --with-png-dir=/usr \
  --with-zlib-dir=/usr \
  --with-xpm-dir=/usr \
  --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
  --enable-gd-native-ttf \
  --with-gettext=shared,/usr \
  --with-gmp=shared,/usr \
  --with-iconv=shared \
  --with-imap-ssl=/usr \
  --with-imap=$IMAPLIBDIR \
  --with-ldap=shared \
  --enable-mbstring=shared \
  --enable-hash \
  --enable-mysqlnd=shared \
  --with-mysqli=shared,mysqlnd \
  --with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock \
  --with-iodbc=shared,/usr \
  --enable-pdo=shared \
  --with-pdo-mysql=shared,mysqlnd \
  --with-pdo-sqlite=shared,/usr \
  --with-pdo-odbc=shared,iODBC,/usr \
  --with-pspell=shared,/usr \
  --with-enchant=shared,/usr \
  --enable-shmop=shared \
  --with-snmp=shared,/usr \
  --enable-soap=shared \
  --enable-sockets \
  --with-sqlite3=shared \
  --enable-sysvmsg \
  --enable-sysvsem \
  --enable-sysvshm \
  --enable-wddx=shared \
  --with-xsl=shared,/usr \
  --enable-zip=shared \
  --with-tsrm-pthreads \
  --enable-intl=shared \
  --enable-opcache \
  --enable-shared=yes \
  --enable-static=no \
  --with-gnu-ld \
  --with-pic \
  --enable-phpdbg \
  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux || exit 1

Its already set, so that isn't the problem either.

Thanks guys...Changing --with-pcre-regex=/usr \ to --with-pcre-regex \ everything compiled. Not sure removing =/usr was the right thing but it works.

PHP version 7.3.13 works just fine on 14.2.

Originally Posted by PROBLEMCHYLD I have 14.2 pcre2-10.34-x86_64-1 pcre-8.39-x86_64-1

it seems like you installed the pcre2 package for current on 14.2: that could have surely messed the things up.
if you need pcre2 on 14.2 you can install it from SBo.

Thanks ponce

Originally Posted by ponce it seems like you installed the pcre2 package for current on 14.2: that could have surely messed the things up. if you need pcre2 on 14.2 you can install it from SBo.

I was able to use pcre2 from current with PHP 7.3.13 using the build from http://ponce.cc/slackware/testing/php-7.2/php-7.2/
and replacing --with-pcre-regex=/usr with --with-external-pcre \ Thanks everyone...