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Bug #37177 with-libxml option in ./configure ignored
Submitted: 2006-04-24 04:27 UTC Modified: 2009-10-03 17:41 UTC
Votes:18
Avg. Score:4.7 ± 0.7
Reproduced:14 of 16 (87.5%)
Same Version:12 (85.7%)
Same OS:9 (64.3%)
From: mhalligan at bitpusher dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Compile Failure
PHP Version: 5.1.2 OS: SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 SP3
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-04-24 04:27 UTC] mhalligan at bitpusher dot com 
Description:
------------
./configure --with-libxml-dir appears to not actually be utilized, and custom installations of libxml2 fail.

Reproduce code:
---------------
./configure 
        --with-openssl \
        --with-apxs=/bitpusher/services/apache/sbin/apxs \
        --with-pear=/bitpusher/services/apache \
        --enable-mbstring \
        --with-pdo-mysql=/bitpusher/services/mysql \
        --with-zlib \
        --with-gd \
        --with-curl \
        --with-libxml-dir=/bitpusher


Expected result:
----------------
./configure should find my custom installation of libxml. 

Actual result:
--------------
Configuring extensions
checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes
checking libxml2 install dir... no
checking for xml2-config path... /usr/bin/xml2-config
configure: error: libxml2 version 2.6.11 or greater required.
../php-build.sh: line 3: --with-openssl: command not found
--------

I've installed libxml2 with --prefix=/bitpusher and that installation is successful.  However, the ./configure script appears to still try to use default xml2 configuration scripts, like /usr/bin/xml2-config.

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 [2006-04-24 09:18 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
It won't be ignored if you actually pass it to the configure.
Currently because of missing "\" you are executing two commands:
1) ./configure
2) --with-openssl etc...
No bug here.
 [2006-04-24 09:33 UTC] mhalligan at bitpusher dot com 
That was a typo in my posting. However, the real problem lies 
in the fact that ./configure looks for libxml2-config first in 
$PATH, then in the variable set with --with-libxml-dir .. This 
is incorrect behavior.
 [2006-04-24 09:36 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
No, it's not a typo on the posting.
This:
../php-build.sh: line 3: --with-openssl: command not found
happens because of the reason I told before.
 [2006-04-24 09:48 UTC] mhalligan at bitpusher dot com 
No, I am not executing two commands. Like I said "that was a typo". I made a typographical error. 

The actual script that I am running is : 


./configure \
        --with-openssl \
        --with-apxs=/bitpusher/services/apache/sbin/apxs \
        --with-pear=/bitpusher/services/apache \
        --enable-mbstring \
        --with-pdo-mysql=/bitpusher/services/mysql \
        --with-zlib \
        --with-gd \
        --with-curl \
        --with-libxml-dir=/bitpusher
 [2006-04-24 09:51 UTC] mhalligan at bitpusher dot com 
Ignore the "../php-build.sh: line 3: --with-openssl: command not found"
section, that was me cutting and pasting from an older session. It has
absolutely nothing to do with the fact that php's ./configure script is
rather broken.
 [2006-04-24 10:03 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.1-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.1-win32-latest.zip


What am I doing wrong?

# ./configure --disable-all --enable-xml --with-libxml-dir=/tmp/libxml --enable-libxml | grep xml
checking libxml2 install dir... /tmp/libxml
checking for xml2-config path... /tmp/libxml/bin/xml2-config
checking whether libxml build works... yes
checking for xml2-config path... (cached) /tmp/libxml/bin/xml2-config
checking whether libxml build works... (cached) yes
 [2006-04-24 10:11 UTC] mhalligan at bitpusher dot com 
Do you already have libxml2 installed? I have the normal 
libxml2 isntallation on my servers that come with suse. I can 
compile fine if I remove them, however, if I don't, PHP's 
configure always finds /usr/sbin/xml-config first.
 [2006-04-24 10:28 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Did you try the snapshot?
Yes, I can successfully configure and compile it even without libxml2 installed in the system.
 [2006-05-02 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2009-10-03 17:41 UTC] philip@php.net 
I believe this problem is bogus, although initially I did suffer its 
wrath. Today I added some documentation that may help:

http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=289134

In short: If PHP cannot find bin/xml2-config in the directory specified 
by --with-libxml-dir, it'll continue on and check the default locations.  
So for those suffering from this issue, keep that in mind, and ensure 
xml2-config exists there. For those using packages/RPMs, ensure the -dev 
version is installed too.

See also: http://php.net/libxml.installation

Status change: NoFeedback->Bogus
 
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