Home / ubuntu / Questions / 263092
In Process
Ashkan Kh. Nazary
Asked: 2013-03-03 05:29:11 +0800 CST

Compiling php 5.2 from source under 12.04, apxs2 (via libtools) ignores the -prefix used with ./configure

  • 772

In the source directory:

./configure --prefix=/home/ashkan/Development/php/bin/php-5.2  --with-mysql --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2

make works fine but make install says:

Installing PHP SAPI module:       apache2handler
/usr/share/apache2/build/instdso.sh SH_LIBTOOL='/usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool' libphp5.la /usr/lib/apache2/modules
/usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool --mode=install cp libphp5.la /usr/lib/apache2/modules/
libtool: install: cp .libs/libphp5.so /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so': Permission denied
apxs:Error: Command failed with rc=65536

UPDATE: reading man apxs2 it seems apxs compiles and then installs the module into apache module directory. This module directory seems to be fixed!

apache2

2 Answers

  1. Based on this blog article, if you specify INSTALL_ROOT the PHP apache module will try to install in that directory.

    INSTALL_ROOT=/the/dir/path/to/install/in make install

    The other thing you might want to try adding this option to your ./configure of php-src:

    --libexecdir=DIR        program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
--sysconfdir=DIR        read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]

    as I believe those are being used in the Makefile

    • 1

  2. No permission to copy binaries to /usr. Do sudo make install.

    • 0