[Xapian-discuss] php bindings won't build with MAMP

[Mark Grandi]

I'll mess with this later, For now I just compiled it on my linux box and
it all went smoothly. However, in phpinfo, it says that the xapian compiled
version is 1.2.10, but the linked version is 1.2.8...I used both the latest
versions of the bindings/core from teh website (1.2.10), so why the
inconsistency in phpinfo?

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:29:09PM -0700, Mark Grandi wrote:
> > Hello, I'm trying to build the xapian bindings to use with php, i've
> > installed using MAMP to make it easier to set up the apache/php/myssql
> > stuff (http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp/index.html), but when I try to
> > configure the bindings, i get this:
> >
> > configure: error: '/usr/bin/php-config --includes' reports
> > '-I/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php
> > -I/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php/main
> > -I/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php/TSRM
> > -I/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php/Zend
> > -I/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php/ext
> > -I/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.3.6/include/php/ext/date/lib' but
> zend.h
> > can't be included from there
> >
> >
> > I made it so its using the php-configure from MAMP, so its reporting the
> > correct paths, those paths did not exist, but I downloaded the header
> files
> > for the correct php version and stuck them in there, but its still
> claiming
> > it can't find them. I've tried a lot of things and nothing work =(
>
> I know nothing about MAMP, but I find it hard to believe you're expected
> to download the headers and install them by hand.  A quick web search
> suggests they are actually in /Applications/MAMP/Library/include - if
> that's true, then MAMP's packaging is buggy - php-config --includes
> should point there.
>
> I suspect that when MAMP make their packages, they build and install
> PHP, then move some of the resulting files around without fixing up
> references to their locations.  You should file a bug with MAMP about
> this.
>
> My guess as to why installing the headers by hand didn't work is that
> you've not copied the headers over correctly.  If you look in config.log
> you can see what happened when configure tried to compile a test file
> including zend.h.
>
> > I read this blog post:
> > http://blog.geertvd.be/2011/04/15/using-xapian-on-os-x-with-mamp/ but he
> > doesn't list a solution, other then just use php 5.2 (which i really
> don't
> > want to do since i'm using some features that are only in 5.3)
>
> That doesn't look like a reliable guide.  It says "make sure you
> download and use the latest stable Xapian version", yet the examples use
> a *development* version which was over a year old when the post was
> written, and had been superseded by a stable release nearly a year
> before.
>
> You really should NOT copy files out of .libs either - tell configure
> where you want to install them (use PHP_EXTENSION_DIR as INSTALL
> explains) and then use "make install".  The extension should by default
> be installed to somewhere which works, so I suspect this is another
> instance of MAMP's php-config reporting bad information.
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly
>