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

[Olly Betts]

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written, and had been superseded by a stable release nearly a year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