Re: Solaris8(x86) install problem

[Steve Brazill]

OK...  I have successfully built a Solaris-8 x86 system (on a Compaq 1850R) which includes installations of MySQL/Apache/PHP and "mod_ssl"...   I also had many trials and tribulations during the process,  but here's what I found that will help you (and future Sun x86 installers) complete the task....     ** Get the right packages:       I went to http://www.sunfreeware.com and downloaded (and installed) the following files:         Gnu "tar-1.1.3"  (so you can 'uncompress' the MySQL source package while you unpack it...)     "gcc-2.95.3"      "make-3.78"     "autoconf-2.13"     "automake-1.4"       I had also downloaded "ssl-0.9.6b" as a 'package' from the site,  but this led to enormous amounts of problems (many of which had been described by Breughel Macabuhay).   SO,  instead, go to the http://www.modssl.org website and get the 'source' distribution,  and build it yourself (which went without a 'hitch' for me).  I ended up using version 0.9.6a     ** Setup your 'build' environment:   After you install 'gcc' and the other 'make' support packages,  make sure your PATH is set to include (especially prior to /usr/ccs/bin) the "/usr/local/bin" directory.   AND,  make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to "/usr/local/lib" otherwise you're going to get many error messages that just don't make sense.... (this goes for SPARC users of Solaris too)  At one point, where I was still getting 'file not found' errors,  I added "/usr/local/ssl/lib" to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (just temporarily)   Unless you download GNU versions of these files,  you'll want to create symbolic links to them in "/usr/local/bin":         /usr/ccs/bin/ar         /usr/ccs/bin/as         /usr/ccs/bin/lex         /usr/ccs/bin/strip   To solve the "cc"/"gcc" problem,  I created a symbolic link in "/usr/local/bin" to "cc" as "gcc".   Also,  for the Apache/mod_perl/mod_ssl/PHP builds,  make sure you specify "gcc" in the "apxs" file for the $CFG_CC entry:      ( my $CFG_CC = q(gcc); )     ** Specify the correct 'config' options:   In the 'configuration' of "openssl",  I used the statement:     ./config --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl   And for the final 'build' of Apache (which then included all the modules),  I used:     export SSL_BASE=/usr/local/ssl   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache \     --enable-module=rewrite \     --enable-shared=rewrite \     --enable-module=ssl