PHP 5.0.1 on Red Hat 9 (Small)

It's called "flex", not lex :)

-Chris

located an RPM for Bison that is for RedHat 9, working with that right now. Wall wasn't as high as anticipated :)

Well that fixed the PHP configure complaining about not finding bison, but doesn't include any "flex". A google search for flex encourages me to work out more on all sorts of excersise equipment. ;)

I did find a package for redhat 9, part of "openpkg" and it includes an RPM for Flex.

trying to install flex generates:

error: Failed dependencies:

OpenPKG is needed by flex-2.5.4a-1.3.0

openpkg >= 1.3.0 is needed by flex-2.5.4a-1.3.0

trying to install openpkg generates:

Preparing… ########################################### [100%]

package openpkg-1.3.0-1.3.0 is intended for a ix86 architecture

package openpkg-1.3.0-1.3.0 is intended for a linux2.4 operating system

Apparently it doesn't know that I am installing it to an x86 with a Linux 2.4 kernel. hmmm, grrr :)

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz

found it :) phew, grrr :)

Configuring extensions

checking whether to enable LIBXML support… yes

checking libxml2 install dir… no

configure: error: xml2-config not found. Please check your libxml2 installation.

And of course it exits abruptly there. Get past one problem and run smack into another. I've found a couple RPM links for xml2 but unable to get all the dependencies right, looking for an updated source tar.gz