[PHP-INSTALL] Compile Oddity

[Bob Cohen]

I'm running across something I'm not sure how to deal with.  I had to 
update curl to support a e-commerce package I wanted to test.  It 
requires that I compile curl into PHP, among other things.  The curl 
version loaded on my box is too old for my current version of PHP.  So I 
got the curl source.  Did the voodoo with no complaints. 

PHP compile still complains when it checks curl.  PHP doesn't seem to 
detect the new install.  One thought is that there's a problem with the 
path.  But I'm not sure where to correct this.  With RedHat as it is. I 
don't think it's wise to dump the RPM.  God only knows what is depending 
on that version of curl. 

When compiling PHP, you can specify the location of the executable.  But 
that doesn't help.  It occurs to me that PHP is looking at the old 
library or simply ignoring the path argument I  put in the configure 
string.  There are libraries in two different places and executables in 
two different places. Someone suggested renaming the old assets using 
the old names to create symbolic links to the right stuff.  This seems 
like an awful solution.   Any thoughts?

I'm running PHP 4.3.7 from source.
Thanks,
Bob

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