Description:
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With the existing RedHat 9.0 installation, I was able to build and install both Apache 2.0.47 and PHP 4.3.3.

So far so good. Everything works.

Then I added a module in the ext directory.

As long as the module is in c, and is a single file, it STILL works! I am able to build the module, install PHP again, and have phpinfo call the info function of the module correctly. Still happy.

But then I add additional files to the extension module.

./buildconf --force does not work properly, but provides some warnings that there are incompatible versions of autoconf and automake. (This was always the case, but everything worked with one file, so I ignored it.) I then changed the automake to automake-1.5 as indicated, and got the appropriate version of autoconf as well.

The buildconf now works, generating a configure file which contains all of the correct filenames in my extension module.

make clean   - fine
make         - fine, compiles and links
make install - fails in install-pear and install-pear-installer which are rules in the Makefile


make install (run as root) now fails with this message:

Installing PHP CLI binary:        /usr/local/bin/
Installing PHP CLI man page:      /usr/local/man/man1/
Installing PHP SAPI module:       apache2handler
/usr/local/apache2/build/instdso.sh SH_LIBTOOL='/usr/local/apache2/build/libtool' libphp4.la /usr/local/apache2/modules
/usr/local/apache2/build/libtool --mode=install cp libphp4.la /usr/local/apache2/modules/
cp .libs/libphp4.so /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp4.so
cp .libs/libphp4.lai /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp4.la
libtool: install: warning: remember to run `libtool --finish /home/dtonn/ng2/user-pp/http/php-4.3.3/libs'
chmod 755 /usr/local/apache2/modules/libphp4.so
[activating module `php4' in /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf]
Installing shared extensions:     /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/
Installing PEAR environment:      /usr/local/lib/php/
PHP Fatal error:  Unable to start messagerouterclient module in Unknown on line
0
make[1]: *** [install-pear-installer] Error 254
make: *** [install-pear] Error 2


It appears to me that it is not possible to create a module for PHP using either the RedHat 9.0 distribution (not PHP's fault, but rather RH's) or the recommended versions of automake and autoconf. So far I have not been able to track down the line of code which actually dumps that error message.