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Request #5639 unable to locate imap client library?
Submitted: 2000-07-17 09:12 UTC Modified: 2002-04-01 19:06 UTC
From: ora dot et dot labora at web dot de Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 4.0 Release Candidate 2 OS: redhat 6.2 - intel
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-07-17 09:12 UTC] ora dot et dot labora at web dot de 
This is the exact php version I'm goint to report about: "php-4.0.1pl2".

Problem:
I tried to configure php with support for IMAP but the "./configure" script
reported that no imap library could be found -- although I installed 
"imap-devel-4.7.5.rpm".

Discussion:
RedHat forgot (?) to put the "lib" prefix  in front of the imap client library
/usr/lib/c-imap.a -- as part of the rpm packet mentioned above. The
configure script is aware of this and tries to solve this by establishing a
softlink /usr/lib/libc-client.a to /usr/lib/c-client.a 

This will only work if we have permission to do so. Because  I don't like
such scripts to modify my system I'll never  run ./configure  as "root" --
which the script assumes. The script assumes,  that creating the softlink 
never fails and consequently ignores every possible error - which took
me some time to figure out what happend.

I suggest that the ./configure script shall instead report the problem and
make some hints how the problem can be fixed "manually". 

I also want to mention again that it is not true that the superuser configures
the package nor that the superuser does a "make". All what we can assume is that the superuser does a supervised "make install".

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 [2000-08-12 01:55 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Re-classified to Feature/Change Request.

--Jani
 [2002-04-01 19:06 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Added 'libc_client.a' text to the error message in case
the correct lib is not found.

Anyways, all libraries should have the 'lib' prefix.
So this is more c-client bug than any other.
 
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