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Re: [PHP] Bison and Flex required to install PHP? From: Terence (terence <email protected>)
Date: 03/31/04

nope, just untarred and ran ./configure.
not to worry, installed flex and bison and it's okay.

the GD version reporting still puzzling me, and from what i've seen on a few
messageboards, i'm not alone :)

thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Nemerson" <evan <email protected>>
To: "Terence" <terence <email protected>>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Bison and Flex required to install PHP?

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 08:37 pm, Terence wrote:
> I just downloaded it today.

Did you make cvsclean, buildconf, anything? try untarring it freshly and
immediately ./configure

> http://my.php.net/get/php-4.3.5.tar.gz/from/a/mirror
>
> Another question, why does phpinfo() say this:
> GD: 1.6.2 or higher

Dunno, but the phrase `or higher' may have something to do with it ;)
>
> when
> http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php says:
>
> Synchronized bundled GD library with GD 2.0.17
>
> Surely there should be some similiarity?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Evan Nemerson" <evan <email protected>>
> To: "Terence" <terence <email protected>>; <php-general <email protected>>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Bison and Flex required to install PHP?
>
> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 06:08 pm, Terence wrote:
> > checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 2425: lex: command
not
> > found
> > configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up
> >
> > and from a search on Yahoo!:
>
>
http://www.madpenguin.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Comments&file=inde
>
> >x&req=showreply&tid=1522&sid=751&pid=1520&mode=&order=&thold=#1522
> >
> > <Quote>
> > figured it out. I needed to install Bison and then Flex in order to
>
> compile
>
> > php. Bison: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/ Flex:
> > http://gnuftp.ccp14.ac.uk/gnu/flex/ later
> > </Quote>
> >
> > I just downloaded the latest version, 4.3.5, installing on RH9 - fresh
> > install
> >
> > So my question, are Bison and Flex required and if so any particular
> > reason? I never had this problem on previous versions (not that I
>
> installed
>
> > on that many different distributions)
>
> They are for CVS. Release versions come with the bison and flex stuff
> pre-made. If you're not using CVS, make sure you're using a fresh copy of
> the
> source.
>
> > Thanks 

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