How to set header file include directory?

[nikic]

How to set header file include directory?

[nikic]

Try ./configure --with-php-config=~/Programs/php7/bin/php-config (or whatever the path to php-config is).

[mnpenner]

It's still saying "Cannot find php-config" even though I've specified the full path...?

$ ./configure --with-php-config=/home/mpenner/Programs/php7/scripts/php-config
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure: error: Cannot find php-config. Please use --with-php-config=PATH

$ stat /home/mpenner/Programs/php7/scripts/php-config   
  File: ‘/home/mpenner/Programs/php7/scripts/php-config’
  Size: 2873        Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   regular file

[mnpenner]

I think the error comes down to this line:

prefix=`$PHP_CONFIG --prefix 2>/dev/null`

Which I ran separately in my terminal...

$ ~/Programs/php7/scripts/php-config --prefix 2>/dev/null
/usr/local/php5

Not sure why that outputs /usr/local/php5 but I'm pretty sure that's not right.

[nikic]

Did you manage to solve this problem?

[mnpenner]

Just now I did. I think I gave up before, but I just re-ran the exact same command I did last time and it successfully built this time. I don't know what's changed. I just have to figure out how to load it now. I think my php7 setup is all wonky.

Update: I just talked to one of my coworkers. I compiled PHP7 totally wrong. My bad.

If anyone else encounters this problem, you need to run make install when compiling PHP 😄 I thought it was like other programs where you could actually run it without installing it to a different directory, but the paths get all messed up if you try it this way, even though the php bin exists.