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Article:		PHP 4.3 and Mac OS X
Subject:		CURL version stops installl
Date:		2003-01-23 09:19:31
From:		anonymous2
When entering the configure line I get the error: checking for CURL support... yes checking for CURL in default path... found in /usr checking for cURL 7.9.8 or greater... configure: error: cURL version 7.9.8 or later is required to compile php with cURL support I have installed a newer version of CURL using Fink, my path is loading Fink commands properly: [MyWorkstation:~] mc% echo $PATH /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin [MyWorkstation:~] mc% curl --version curl 7.10 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.3) libcurl/7.10 ipv6 zlib/1.1.3 So Curl is greater than version 7.9.8. I have added the following option to the ./configure command: --with-curl=/sw any help here?

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• CURL version stops installl
  2003-01-24 14:45:49  Adam Trachtenberg | [View]
  
  
  Yes. First, the decision to use --with-curl=/sw is the correct one. Since fink doesn't delete files, the (old) Apple installed curl in /usr/bin still lives on your machine and the PHP configuration program is picking it up instead of the (new) fink version. (The configuration process and $PATH are independent of each other.)
  
  So, you need to manually add the /sw directory to point PHP and cURL 7.10. Once I did that, I got an error that essentially boiled down to "can't locate file for: -ldl" I did some poking around and the short answer is: I didn't have a necessary library installed.
  
  Using fink to install "dlcompat-dev" fixed the problem. (I already had dlcompat and dlcompat-shlibs installed.) Once I did that, PHP compiled with cURL just fine. (Well, it did give a warning about /lib not being found, but that's harmless.)
  
  Let me know if this fixes your problem or if you're still stuck.
• CURL version stops installl
  2003-01-31 07:48:29  mcollins@kuwago.com [View]
  
  
  Thanks for taking a moment to consider my problem and offer advice. I followed your suggestion and used fink to install dlcompat-dev (the other two mentioned, dlcompat and dlcompat-shlibs, were also already installed by fink).
  
  I still get the following error when I issue the ./configure command:
  
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-curl=/sw
  ...etc
  
  checking for cURL 7.9.8 or greater... configure: error: cURL version 7.9.8 or later is required to compile php with cURL support
  
  I have also tried taking ou the option --prefix=/usr. Any other suggestions?
• CURL version stops install
  2003-02-28 19:29:40  tychay [View]
  
  
  You could try installing over Apple's curl binaries (this is what I do). I gave instructions in a post below.
  
  The line:
  checking for CURL in default path... found in /usr
  occurs when the ./configure has "--with-curl" or "--with-curl=shared" (latter is unsported on Mac OS X). instead of "--with-curl=/sw". Thus, that line should not be output if youy have "--with-curl=/sw".
  
  Note:
  --prefix=/usr
  is only for targeting the make install. It shouldn't affect the configure
  
  The version of curl I install against is 7.10.3 from fink. I am using "curl-ssl", "curl-ssl-dev", and "curl-ssl-shlibs" packages. You definitely need either the "curl-dev" or "curl-ssl-dev", and the library is in "curl-shlibs" or "curl-ssl-shlibs" so you'll need that too. I don't think the "curl" or "curl-ssl" is needed, but it doesn't hurt to have it also.
  
  Unfortunately, I also smash Apple's installation of curl on my machines with my own, so I can't be 100% sure that PHP isn't accidentally linking against that.
  
  I hope this helps,
  
  terry chay
  tychay at php dot net