Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "J.O. Aho" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: PHP 5.6.12 compilation difficulties Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 08:58:49 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net arwwdOSaRad7XiMb9OuAPwB6LjhNf8JSmfjT0YpiAdLGQLpllh Cancel-Lock: sha1:h+WNaa4F9O8bRhv1YuHmje/DM7Y= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:15645 On 08/09/2015 02:11 AM, The Doctor wrote: > All right. > > I have just compiles Mysql 5.5 current correctly > > and when I try to get a PDO configured, I get > > checking for MySQL support for PDO... yes > checking for mysql_config... /usr/contrib/bin/mysql_config > checking for mysql_commit in -lmysqlclient... no > checking for mysql_commit in -lmysqlclient... (cached) no > configure: error: PDO_MYSQL configure failed, MySQL 4.1 needed. Please check config.log for more information. > > Why is this happening when mysql_commit is present in > libmysqlclient dot a and dot so > When you run the ./configure script, you need to tell where the binaries are installed, this includes the full path to the mysql_config which you want to use, as it seems your php has found the mysql which is installed, not the one you compiled. Run: ./configure --help to see all the options that can be tweaked. My recommendation is that you make a new installation of a rolling-distribution instead, this way you will be able to update all the time and don't have to compile anything, unless you want more control and then you should go for a meta distribution like Funtoo or SourgeMage. -- //Aho