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[Tom Melendez]

Hi Allen,

Ok, here's an obscure suggestion:

I'm not sure what the problem is, but you may want to take a look at the 
spec files for some PHP/MySQL RPMs, and see if that gives you any clues.

Good Luck!

Tom
http://www.liphp.org


Allen Shaw wrote:

> Okay, I decided to go with a source install, and now I'm just 
> confused.  As I mentioned earlier I installed php 4.3.11 from source 
> this morning without removing the existing php rpms, and I noticed 
> that some things weren't working.  So I went back and removed those 
> rpms and tried to rebuild again, but the problems don't go away.
>
> The real problem I'm trying to solve is that apache (1.3) is 
> consistently segfaulting on a few apparently randomly chosen calls.  
> That is, I have a few links on my site that are garuanteed to cause a 
> segmentation fault in apache, but it's seems oddly random why those 
> links are broken and not any other.  So I thought, maybe it's an 
> arcane php bug; upgrade to latest and then submit a bug-report if 
> necessary.  Even stranger, now that I've upgraded, I get the *same* 
> behavior, but on *different* links (including any select operations 
> with phpMyAdmin, but not update, insert, etc., and not selects in 
> other php scripts...)
>
> But my hope has been that, maybe, just maybe, there IS a bug in php's 
> mysql support somewhere, and if I were to compile 
> --with-mysql=/path/to/mysql-headers I might just be okay.  But that 
> seems a no-go, too.
>
> Using '--with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql' gets me the error 'Cannot find 
> MySQL header files under /usr/include/mysql'; same for 
> '--with-mysql=/usr/lib/mysql'.  Those are the only two directories 
> that rpm says contain files from the MySQL-devel package.  And 
> /usr/include/mysql does contain mysql.h .
>
> There are numerous discussions of this error message on the Web, but 
> all the one's I've found seem to be either dead ends or just as 
> trial-and-error as I am.
>
> So, banging my head again, I ask the group: what the heck am I doing 
> wrong? (Even the most obscure hint would be appreciated...)
>
> Thanks,
> Allen
>