Re: Problem Compiling PHP4 from deb source

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

<jeff@meta-craft.com> wrote:
>	checking for BZip2 in default path... not found
>	configure: error: Please reinstall the BZip2 distribution
>	make: *** [configure-apache-stamp] Error 1
>
>I have
>bzip2 1.0.1-6 installed
>libbz2        installed
>
>and am unaware of how to resolve the above problem.

  [cjw44@riva ~]$ apt-cache showsrc php4
  Package: php4
  Binary: php4-xml, php4, php4-gd, php4-imap, php4-ldap, php4-mhash,
   php4-mysql, php4-pgsql, php4-snmp, php4-cgi-imap, php4-cgi-pgsql,
   php4-cgi, php4-cgi-gd, php4-cgi-ldap, php4-cgi-mhash, php4-cgi-mysql,
   php4-cgi-snmp, php4-cgi-xml, php4-dev
  Version: 4.0.3pl1-0potato1
  Priority: optional
  Section: web
  Maintainer: Petr Cech <cech@debian.org>
  Build-Depends: debhelper, bison, flex, libpng2-dev, libpcre2-dev,
   postgresql-dev, librecode-dev, libmysqlclient6-dev, libgd1g-dev,
   apache-dev, zlib1g-dev, libc-client4.7-dev, freetype2-dev, t1lib-dev,
   libxmltok1-dev, libopenldap-dev, libsnmp4.1-dev, libmagick4-dev,
   libbz2-dev, libmhash-dev, libmm10-dev, libpam0g-dev
  Architecture: any
  Standards-Version: 3.1.1
  Format: 1.0
  Directory: dists/stable/main/source/web
  Files:
   f7c80327c99642d91fd525e2d6ae0592 1113 php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.dsc
   e65b706a7fc4469d1ccd564ef8a2c534 2214630 php4_4.0.3pl1.orig.tar.gz
   00b34f85e6cc63d30255fdbf837e44a3 130427 php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.diff.gz

You need all the packages in the Build-Depends: line installed
(specifically, libbz2-dev) installed before you can build the php4
package successfully.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]