Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-STABLE-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-STABLE-latest.zip

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(it might be your sed that is broken, try GNU sed)

I have tried using this CVS snapshot:

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

But no change compiler stalls

my configure looks like this:

./configure --with-mysql=/local/mysql
--with-apxs=/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-pgsql 
--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/jpeg-6b --with-png-dir=/usr/local/libpng
--with-gd=/usr/local/gd --with-zlib 

when I run it outputs:

checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.7
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.7

then it still stalls does not do anything more, please do advice what could be wrong how come it's not going beyond this help

Regards
Martin W. Kuria

Due to a bug in the installed sed on your system the build
fails. Install GNU sed and it should be okay.
 
Thank you for your interest in PHP.

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Updating to sed-4.0.7 did not help me with either php-4.3.1 or php-4.3.2 on Solaris 2.7.  I still experience the hang.  As a clue, the system shows high activity on the "tr" command.

/src/php-4.3.2# ./configure --with-mysql=/tools/mysql --with-apxs=/web/bin/apxs
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.7
Updated main/php_version.h
<hangs for hours>

/src/php-4.3.2# tail config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:1601: checking host system type

/src/php-4.3.2# top
load averages:  1.40,  1.58,  1.68                                     16:19:55
117 processes: 107 sleeping, 4 running, 3 zombie, 2 stopped, 1 on cpu
CPU states:     % idle,     % user,     % kernel,     % iowait,     % swap
Memory: 1024M real, 363M free, 750M swap in use, 4064M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
17156 root       1  20    0  928K  592K run     3:39 46.40% tr
 1945 user 1  28    0   66M   17M sleep 187.0H  3.33% Xvnc
 1053 user 1  58    0 7608K 4520K sleep 414:56  1.00% vovsh
 2008 root       1  28    0 7672K 5544K run   744:28  0.53% spong-server
17977 root       1   8    0 1640K 1320K cpu2    0:00  0.29% top
 2019 root       1  58    0 8448K 6968K sleep 279:05  0.13% spong-network
17972 root       1  28    0 7672K 3168K run     0:00  0.09% spong-server