Fortunately, after a lot of investigation I can report back on this.
I have been through about 10 cycles of rebuilding the server from scratch to
a standard build.
(it's a rented dedicated server with an option to 're-install operating
system')
I can now successfully rebuild using 5.2.5. Having been through many
options, I think the configuration that made the difference was to configure
libjpeg with
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
to ensure creating all neccessary files.
To prevent an error ('can't find -ltdl') make sure mcrypt is
configured/built with
--enable-ltdl-install
This error only seems to occur when building with mysql and is not picked up
during 'configure'.
I now have a good script that will build and install the following from
source:
zlib
lincurl
libpng
libjpeg
libxml2
openssl
mhash
libmcrypt
libncurses (essential for mysql)
mysql
and of course, php!
I have successfully tested for php versions 5.2.4 and 5.2.5
My most recent tests have been run on a Fedora 6 server.
If there is demand I'd be happy to publish a page with the contents of my
entire installation scripts.
""Mike Price"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> You need to compile PHP last against Apache and MySQL. There's no need to
>> compile MySQL - just use the pre-compiled statically linked binary. PHP
>> is the 'glue' to connect everything together last. So if you compile
>> Apache first, then install the MySQL binary, then compile PHP last
>> against these, you might be up and running then.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Keith Roberts
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> As reported in Jamie Harris' thread <<PHP 5.2.5 Build Errors,?XML linking
> problem>>, I found that using the identical configure options, 5.2.4
> configure and make behaved perfectly.
>
> Something in 5.2.5 configure has gone wrong as a result of compiling
> Apache (or zlib or something....). Whatever it was, it has not interfered
> with configure for 5.2.4.
>
> Maybe I should do a 'diff' on the two versions of configure?
>
> As for compiling MySQL I tried it a few years ago and gave up. It was an
> absolute pleasure to find I could take the latest binaries and compile it
> first time with no problems at all.
>
> Mike
>
