I tried to run the php-5.0.2 'sh makerpm' on Suse9.2, and ran into the following problems.
I had to make the following changes to get past initial errors: 1. Install rpms apache2, apache2-devel, bison, flex, mysql, mysql-devel 2. changed makerpm: Change: rpm -ba To: rpmbuild -ba Change: ./buildconf To: ./buildconf --force Change: --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs \ To: --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2 \ Now I'm stuck on a new 'sh makerpm' error I don't understand. What does this mean? Am I missing another package? <Begin snip> Build complete. (It is safe to ignore warnings about tempnam and tmpnam). + mv php.keepme sapi/cgi/php + exit 0 Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50137 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/packages/BUILD + cd php-5.0.2 + rm -rf /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot + mkdir -p /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/lib/apache + install -m 0755 .libs/libphp5.so /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/lib/apache + mkdir -p /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/bin + install -m 0755 sapi/cli/php /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/bin + install -m 0755 sapi/cgi/php /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/bin/php_cgi + mkdir -p /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/share/man/man1 + install -m 0755 sapi/cli/php.1 /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/share/man/man1 + mkdir -p /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/etc + install -m 0755 php.ini-recommended /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/etc/php.ini + mkdir -p /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/lib/php/extensions + install -m 0755 'modules/*.so' /var/tmp/php5-5.0.2-buildroot/usr/lib/php/extensions install: cannot stat `modules/*.so': No such file or directory error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50137 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.50137 (%install) <End snip> The modules directory does exist but it is empty. /usr/src/packages/BUILD/php-5.0.2/modules/ Thank you. -- ._____________________. | \0/ John Stile | | UniX Administration | | / \ 510-305-3800 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .---------------------.