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Bug #39591 ./configure flag failure
Submitted: 2006-11-22 17:31 UTC Modified: 2006-12-04 20:46 UTC
From: nick dot ferszt at ga dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: *Compile Issues
PHP Version: 5.2.0 OS: OS X 10.3.9
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-11-22 17:31 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
Description:
------------
When trying to configure 5.2.0 on OS X 10.3.9 I get the 
error message(s):

./configure: line 2333: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error
./configure: line 2339: test: =: unary operator expected
expr: syntax error

etc...

To fix this in configure:

Replace lines 2325-2354 with 

 for var in CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS LIBS CC CXX; do
    eval val=\$$var
    if test -n "$val"; then
      echo "$var='$val' \\" >> config.nice
    fi
  done

  for arg in $0 "$@"; do
    echo "'$arg' \\" >> config.nice
    CONFIGURE_COMMAND="$CONFIGURE_COMMAND '$arg'"
  done
  echo '"$@"' >> config.nice
  chmod +x config.nice

This solves the problem.

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 [2006-11-22 21:38 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Please put your configure somewhere and post the URL here.
 [2006-11-27 14:30 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
Configure can be found at:
http://home.san.rr.com/factorysix/configure.txt

These configure flages are from the orginal default install of 
4.2.x with a few additions. It is quite possible that since 
5.2.0 some options have been moved or changed making some 
configuration options unnessary.
 [2006-11-27 15:01 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
No, I mean the configure script itself.
 [2006-11-28 14:48 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
Original configure file from source:
http://www.ga.com/phpbug/configure-original.zip

Configure as modified:
http://www.ga.com/phpbug/5.2-configure-fix.zip
 [2006-11-28 15:08 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
The first link is broken.
What kind of shell are you using, btw?
/bin/sh --version ?
 [2006-11-28 16:04 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
The link has been fixed. I am using bash version 2.05b.0(1)-
release (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0)
 [2006-11-28 16:20 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
I have successfully configured the original on another 
installation of 10.3.9.

There is something wrong with my particular system. Go ahead 
and bogus this bug.

Thanks.
 [2006-11-28 16:29 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
Sorry, it compiled on a 10.4 system. 10.3.9 still gives 
errors.
 [2006-11-28 16:31 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Do you have any ideas what might be causing it?
Are there any differencies between these two systems?
 [2006-11-28 16:36 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
I believe there is a difference in the GCC version which may 
be suspect. In two 10.3.9 servers, both give errors while the 
10.4 did not.

10.4.8 - gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)
10.3.9 - gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 
1671)

Apple will not release GCC 4 for OS versions less than 10.4.
 [2006-11-28 16:51 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
No, gcc is not used in this case.
The configure file is executed by your shell.
 [2006-11-28 16:58 UTC] nick dot ferszt at ga dot com 
10.3.9 GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-
darwin7.0)

10.4.8 GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-
darwin8.0)

I have also tried csh, sh, tcsh, zsh. All give the errors. The 
only thing that has worked so far is the configure code 
replacement.
 [2006-12-04 20:46 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
>I have also tried csh, sh, tcsh, zsh. All give the errors.
It doesn't matter what your current shell is, ./configure uses /bin/sh, which, I'm sure, you didn't change when installing all these shells.
So I assume that a bug was in your /bin/sh, which has been fixed recently.
 
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