This is most likely cause by the autoconf 2.52 used to
create the distribution configure. 

Please try replacing it with this one 

http://www.edin.dk/php/configure.gz

I have same OS, PHP version, etc.

When using the posted configure script (from bug report) I get the following:

root@unknown:[rip/php-4.2.0]:70 Making all in Zend
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/rip/php-4.2.0/Zend'
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../main   -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -DSOLARIS2=280 -DUSE_EXPAT -I../TSRM  -g -O2 -prefer-pic -c -o zend_language_parser.lo `test -f zend_language_parser.c || echo './'`zend_language_parser.c
In file included from zend_compile.h:24,
                 from zend_language_parser.c:147:
zend.h:55: unix.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [zend_language_parser.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/rip/php-4.2.0/Zend'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

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Hello,

I got the same bug. My configure failed because configure could not build configtest.out. Solaris 8 does not come with a cc by default and I just had installed gcc.

The fix which did it for me was linking /usr/local/bin/gcc to /usr/local/bin/cc.

.kai

I get the same behavior with 4.2.1, with both gcc versions 3.1 and 2.95, as well as both Sun and GNU make.

reopen. 

Same behaviour over here on Solaris 8 with 4.2.0 and gcc 2.95. When using the alternate config script, make bails out with "my_getwd.c:62: #error "No way to get current directory".

Solution :

This one really sucked. The parse errors are indeed related to the autoconfig version used. Here's what to do :
1) Save the configure script to configure.org, and run ./buildconf to recreate it. Make sure you have autoconfig, automake and libtool on your system.
2) Configure will now complete, but if make dies with a "No way to get current directory error" on my_getwd.c , you can remedy this by adding a "#define HAVE_GETWD" line to ext/mysql/libmysql/mysys_priv.h .
3) After that, make may sh*t itself again on a redeclaration of perror in dbug.c . This will go away if you save the original dbug.c to something else, and then put a new one in place in which you have deleted both instances of the perror declaration lines.

After all of this, PHP compiled OK on my box.

Dirk

Please try this snapshot: 

http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz

Ok, here's the fix for solaris 8 with gcc.

install m4
install autoconf
cd php-4.2.1 src directory
run autoconf

Once that is done, everything should ./configure, make, make install just fine.

As far as I can tell the 4.2.1 release is jacked because of a bad autoconf prior to packaging. 

John

This bug has been fixed in CVS. You can grab a snapshot of the
CVS version at http://snaps.php.net/. In case this was a documentation 
problem, the fix will show up soon at http://www.php.net/manual/.
In case this was a PHP.net website problem, the change will show
up on the PHP.net site and on the mirror sites.
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.

Hello,

I have the same problem, using php 4.2.1 - the new 
configure script didn't fix it, it still dies in the same 
way. I am using GCC as supplied with Solaris 8 OE 2002/02 
Sparc, on that platform... it is a 64 bit host if that 
helps in some way.

thanks,

James

Hello,

I have the same problem, using php 4.2.1 - the new 
configure script didn't fix it, it still dies in the same 
way. I am using GCC as supplied with Solaris 8 OE 2002/02 
Sparc, on that platform... it is a 64 bit host if that 
helps in some way.

thanks,

James

Hi,

First: Sorry for the double submission earlier :)

Second: i had tried running ./buildconf - it didn't fix it. 
But upgrading to autoconf 2.53 then running ./buildconf 
did.

thanks all,

James

Well, here's a piece of installation on my Solaris8 i386:

> cd php4-STABLE-200206220300
> ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/apache/bin/apxs --with-java=/usr/java --with-mysql
> make
Making all in Zend
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/src/php4-STABLE-200206220300/Zend'
yacc -p zend -v -d ./zend_language_parser.y -o zend_language_parser.c
"./zend_language_parser.y", line 47: fatal: invalid escape, or illegal reserved word: pure_parser
make[1]: *** [zend_language_parser.c] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/src/php4-STABLE-200206220300/Zend'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1


greetings,
bm.

I'm a solaris person regularly required to configure
and build GNU software, and I keep a repository
of scripts to get configure to do the right thing

I try to avoid symlinking cc to gcc as some 
environments insist on a sun compiler ($$$)
and its nice not to have to re-hack things for
a new client.

While there is indeed a bug in the php configure
script,

$ CC=gcc ./configure

is sufficient in this and most other cases.

I'm getting the error 

my_getwd.c:62: #error "No way to get current directory"

I am compiling php-4.2.3.
I'm on a solaris 7 box with autoconf 2.53, with gcc-2.95.3.

Any suggestions?