Installing PHP with GD support on RHL8.0

[Dolda2000]

At least that means that --with-gd=/usr/local/lib was correct (why did you think that it wouldn't, wassy?).
Anyway, try finding where gd.h should be. You can search for it in the PHP source tree with this command:

find -name "*.c" -exec egrep '#include <&#40;.*/&#41;?gd.h>' &#123;&#125; \;

[majik]

Using --with-gd=/usr/local/gd-2.0.11 stopped at some point, say point A, with the error:

configure: error: Unable to find libgd.(a|so) anywhere under /usr/local/gd-2.0.11

Using --with-gd=/usr/local stopped at point B with the error:

Cannot find header files under /usr/local

When I tried using --with-gd=/usr/local/lib, it stopped somewhere between point A and point B (actually, in the line in lieu of the original error - in point A) and gave me the error:

configure: error: Unable to find gd.h anywhere under /usr/local/lib

The file gd.h is not found in /usr/local/lib, but is found in /usr/local/gd-2.0.11/

Just because --with-gd=/usr/local seems to go futher in the configuration I assumed this is the right way to go, but I may be wrong. Maybe its easier to somehow get it to find the gd.h when using --with-gd=/usr/local/lib ??

[Dolda2000]

This has just gone too far. It should be this hard. Do this:

cd /usr/local/lib
for lib in libgd.*; do ln -s ../lib/$lib ../gd-2.0.11/$lib; done

Then configure again using --with-gd=/usr/local/gd-2.0.11. If it doesn't work then, my hair will go white.

[majik]

I did what you suggested and I got this after running configure again with --with-gd=/usr/local/gd-2.0.11 and got the same thing:

configure: error: Cannot find header files under /usr/local

Apparently, it ran the configuration as if I entered --with-gd=/usr/local since it did not complain about libgd.a/.so. It also found gd.h (which is also found when using --with-gd=/usr/local).

Damn GD to hell

[Dolda2000]

Try "make distclean" in the PHP directory and then reconfigure.

[majik]

[root@localhost php-4.3.1]# make distclean
make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.

[Dolda2000]

Isn't it maintained with autoconf/automake? OK, make clean, then?

[majik]

same thing

[Dolda2000]

This has gone far past "too bad". Can you upload that configure script to a server somewhere so that I may have a look at it?

[majik]

I don't have a place to upload it.

I just downloaded php v4.3.1 from php.net ( http://www.php.net/get/php-4.3.1.tar.bz2/from/a/mirror ) to /usr/local

then I did:

cd /usr/local
tar -xvzf php-4.3.1.tar.gz
cd php-4.3.1
./configure \
--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache/conf \
--enable-versioning \
--with-mysql=/usr/local \
--enable-ftp \
--with-gd=/usr/local/ \
--with-zlib \
--enable-bcmath \
--disable-debug \
--enable-memory-limit=yes \
--enable-track-vars

Same with GD:
I downloaded http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.11.tar.gz to /usr/local
then:

cd /usr/local
tar -xvzf gd-2.0.11.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.11
./configure
make
make install

I did not modify any files. I first did GD then attempted PHP.