I am currently in charge of evaluating/deploying Mac OS 
X as a front-end platform for our new PHP based site. 
However, as has been the case for a while, I cannot get 
PHP 4 to compile.

I had filed a bug report earlier (http://bugs.php.net/
bugs.php?id=4764) which went unfulfilled, I just found 
out, because when I got written back, my email address 
of my previous employer was no longer in my 
possession.

I had read something, somewhere (that somewhere 
escapes me) that had said that the libtool that is 
included with PHP 4 does not recognize/properly act on 
the Mac OS X Server / Mac OS X.

Is it possible that this tool is now "broken" on the Mac 
OS X platform? Reason being I tried yet again to create 
a DSO for Mac OS X, and had the exact same issue as 
http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php?id=7872.

Now, I figured, hey, maybe if I tried to compile it directly 
into Apache, and then use "--enable-shared=max" 
would help some...and I got this when I started the 
Apache server. I?configured the two pieces as follow:

PHP:?./configure ?--with-apache=../apache-641/apache -
-enable-track-vars --enable-inline-optimizations --with-
mysql=/usr/local/mysql --without-gd --quiet

Apache: ./configure --with-layout=opt-mark --activate-
module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a --enable-
module=so --enable-shared=max

Once compilation is complete, I?try to start the server 
and receive the following message:

[localhost:local/src/apache_1.3.14] root# /opt/apache/
sbin/apachectl start
dyld: /opt/apache/sbin/httpd multiple definitions of 
symbol _ThNormalize
/opt/apache/sbin/httpd definition of _ThNormalize
/opt/apache/libexec/libphp4.so definition of 
_ThNormalize
/opt/apache/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be 
started

Same exact thing happened with the Apache source 
tree available from Apple at publicsource.apple.com.

I noticed the following:

[localhost:src/apache-641/apache] root# nm /opt/
apache/sbin/httpd | grep ThNorma
000653b0 T _ThNormalize
[localhost:src/apache-641/apache] root# nm /opt/
apache/libexec/libphp4.so ?| grep ThNorma
000c0d28 T _ThNormalize

--

Now, I will say this now as I need this done sooner than 
later, and I believe there are many Mac OS X / Darwin 
users who would love to be running PHP 4 but they 
can't, but I can arrainge for anyone who needs it, 
access to a stock Mac OS X Public Beta box with 
developer tools installed and everything.

Thank you for your great product, and I await your 
speedy attention.

??Mark J. Hershenson
??markhers@green-ant.com
??http://green-ant.com/