Fixed in CVS. Fix will be in PHP 4.1

--Jani

This was "fixed" in CVS, but incorrectly.  Please apply the following patch to the crack extension:

--BEGIN_PATCH--
===================================================================
RCS file: /repository/php4/ext/crack/config.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -u -r1.6 config.m4
--- config.m4   30 Nov 2001 18:59:28 -0000  1.6
+++ config.m4   28 Feb 2002 19:33:14 -0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 if test "$PHP_CRACK" != "no"; then
 
    for i in /usr/local/lib /usr/lib $PHP_CRACK/lib $PHP_CRACK/cracklib; do
-       test -f $i/lib/libcrack.$SHLIB_SUFFIX_NAME -o -f $i/libcrack.a && CRACK_LIBDIR=$i
+       test -f $i/libcrack.$SHLIB_SUFFIX_NAME -o -f $i/libcrack.a && CRACK_LIBDIR=$i
    done
 
    for i in /usr/local/include /usr/include $PHP_CRACK/include $PHP_CRACK/cracklib; do
--END_PATCH--

The code that searched for the shared objects was looking under a subdirectory lib, so instead of looking in /usr/lib it was looking in /usr/lib/lib.  This patch fixes the problem.

Really fixed now. Thanks for the patch, jtate.

--Jani

I think it is no longer possible to
build php using the static lib