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THE GOAL: To use xsl(t) functions with php.

Server info: I'm on dreamhost shared hosting (everybody loves dreamhost) but they don't have php with xsl.

What's the deal: I tried to get xsl working using this guide, but then noticed that they were using php4, and so I was like "Ok screw that" and read up on a little php5. According to the PHP XSL manual page, all I need to do to get it working is include the --with-xsl=$HOME/libxslt tag. Since I'm on a shared server, though, I have to put PHP in the right place, which means a few more simple tags. Here's the ./configure that I came up with, no errors:

Code:

./configure \
--with-prefix=$HOME/php5 \
--with-xsl=$HOME/libxslt \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--with-config-file-path=$HOME/php5/etc/php.ini \
--enable-mysql

But then I go make and it spits out the following after a bunch of normal output:

Code:

/home/[my account]/downloads/src/php-5.0.4/main/output.c:421: undefined reference to `php_ob_gzhandler_check'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [sapi/cgi/php] Error 1

Any idea what the problem is? I've been stuggling with this for a while now.


BONUS QUESTIONS: unnecessary questions that will make me consider you a very nice person if you answer them :]
1. The ./configure gives me a big scary warning if I don't put --enable-force-cgi-redirect in there. What does that do?


The compassion of a thousand merciless suns will rain down upon you if you give me a hand (please).

EDIT: If there is a simpler way to use xslt functions without ASP, then by all means, let me know.

What about configuring with --with-zlib ?

I have been using PHP5+XSLT for some time now, and I have compiled PHP5 on literally a dozen servers at work with no problems at all. Also make sure your PHP tree is clean. i.e. Do a "make distclean" between compilations as you experiment. It sometimes matters.

For your second question, I'm not totally sure, but just in case you have missed this page:
http://hk.php.net/security.cgi-bin

Good call on the make distclean, that cleared up the make problems. However, I'm now getting an error when I make install:

Code:

Installing PHP SAPI module:       cgi
Installing PHP CGI into: /usr/local/bin/
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/#INST@17676#': Permission denied
make: *** [install-sapi] Error 1

This looks to me like it's something simple like a missing prefix for the files, but as you can see in my configure above, I've got all the prefixes I can think of. I'm on shared hosting, so as far as I can tell, everything has to be installed to the non-default location of my account.

Use --prefix instead of --with-prefix.

That's got it, thanks! PHP compiled seemingly successfully, and even though the phpinfo() still isn't working, I'm guessing that's a problem with .htaccess or something.