I am unable to get the configure script to complete on my Fedora 8 x86_64 install. The configure command I am using is
./configure --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --cache-file=../config.cache --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d --disable-debug --with-pic --disable-rpath --with-bz2 --with-curl --with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-gdbm --with-gettext --with-gmp --with-iconv --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-openssl --with-png --with-pspell --with-expat-dir=/usr --with-pcre-regex=/usr --with-zlib --with-layout=GNU --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-magic-quotes --enable-sockets --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-sysvmsg --enable-track-vars --enable-trans-sid --enable-yp --enable-wddx --with-pear=/usr/share/pear --with-kerberos --enable-ucd-snmp-hack --with-unixODBC=/usr --enable-memory-limit --enable-shmop --enable-calendar --enable-dbx --enable-dio --with-mime-magic=/etc/httpd/conf/magic --without-sqlite --with-libxml-dir=/usr/lib --with-xml --with-mysql --with-mysqli=/usr/lib/mysql/mysql_config --with-pdo-mysql --with-gd --with-pdo-odbc=unixODBC,/usr --disable-dom --disable-dba --with-mssql=/usr/local/freetds --enable-mbstring --enable-soap --with-xmlrpc --with-libxml-dir=/usr/include/libxml2 --with-ldap --with-pdo-dblib=/usr/local/freetds --enable-zip --with-fastcgi --enable-discard-path --enable-force-cgi-redirect The script bombs out with: Configuring extensions checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes checking libxml2 install dir... /usr/include/libxml2 checking for xml2-config path... /usr/bin/xml2-config checking whether libxml build works... no configure: error: build test failed. Please check the config.log for details. Config.log shows the following in the last few lines. configure:19793: checking whether to enable LIBXML support configure:19841: checking libxml2 install dir configure:19870: checking for xml2-config path configure:20028: checking whether libxml build works configure:20055: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl -lxml2 -lz -lm 1>&5 /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure: failed program was: #line 20044 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" char xmlInitParser(); int main() { xmlInitParser(); return 0; } Does anyone have any ideas how to make this thing work? I have checked my paths 100 times and libxml2 along with its course code is indeed installed on the system. Thanks!