Bug#387619: Building php4 from source with dpkg-buildpackage, errors in cgi-build generated Makefile - libtool not used for cc

[Gunnar Skogen]

Package: php4-dev Version: 4.4.4-0.dotdeb.1     New to Debian (but have had some unix experience in the past) Need to patch php4 ext/mssql/php_mssql.c in order to call stored procedures from MS SQL (For recipy & reason for this: see http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/Executing-Microsoft-SQL-Server-Stored-Procedure-from-PHP-on-Linux ).    I use “apt-get source php4”, “apt-get build-dep php4“ and dpkg-buildpackage to build.   It all stops when the cgi-build dir comes to the linking stage with the message: libtool: link: `ext/openssl/openssl.lo' is not a valid libtool object   openssl.lo, because it is the first file in the link list – all .lo files under cgi-build/ext are empty. This is not the case with apache-build and apache2-build extension, linking here works. The cause of this is that the generated Makefile compile statement in cgi-build differs from apache(2)-build’s Makefile:   Example from apache(2)’s (working): /bin/sh /usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/apache2-build/libtool --silent --preserve-dup-deps --mode=compile gcc -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/bcmath/libbcmath/src -Iext/bcmath/ -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/bcmath/ -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/apache2-build/include -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/apache2-build/main -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4 -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/mbstring/mbregex -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/mbstring/libmbfl -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/mbstring/libmbfl/mbfl -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/apache2-build/TSRM -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/apache2-build/Zend -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/main -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/Zend -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/TSRM -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/apache2-build/    -O2 -Wall -fsigned-char -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs  -prefer-pic -c /usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/bcmath/libbcmath/src/compare.c -o ext/bcmath/libbcmath/src/compare.lo   Example from cgi-build (not working): gcc  -Iext/standard/ -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/standard/ -DPHP_ATOM_INC -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/cgi-build/include -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/cgi-build/main -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4 -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/mbstring/mbregex -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/mbstring/libmbfl -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/mbstring/libmbfl/mbfl -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/cgi-build/TSRM -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/cgi-build/Zend -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/main -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/Zend -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/TSRM -I/usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/cgi-build/    -O2 -Wall -fsigned-char -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs  -c /usr/local/src/php4-4.4.4/ext/standard/array.c -o ext/standard/array.o  && echo > ext/standard/array.lo    It seems obvious why from these examples that the problem is that the Makefile for cgi-build is not correctly generated and probably easy if one knows where to fix it ( I have not found where). A workaround I might try is to edit the Makefile, but the root cause here seems to me to be a bug(?).   If there are any other solutions, please let me know.   *: other “bugs/problems incurred while running dpkg-buildpackage, FYI: 1) All config.* files are deleted (cleaned away) and reported missing initially. Solution: re-install these and go on, flag dpkg-buildpackage with –nc hereafter 2) libtool not found in the xxx-build dirs when these are to be built Solution: link in /usr/bin/libtool. _____________________________   Gunnar Skogen  Laycan Solutions AS