The Fix for those Silly FreeBSD PHP Ports PHP_AUTOCONF Errors

If you’ve also been running into those PHP_AUTOCONF errors when trying to build php modules on FreeBSD, then you’ll be interested in this. The following two commands fixed the problem for me:

ln -s /usr/local/bin/autoheader-2.59 /usr/local/bin/autoheader259
ln -s /usr/local/bin/autoconf-2.59 /usr/local/bin/autoconf259

The error message I was getting is as follows:

Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable is set correctly and then rerun this script

05-October-2007 Update

If you’re seeing this problem again with autoconf 2.61 and php 5.2.4 on FreeBSD 6.2, the new fix is to run these commands (assuming you are using a c shell):

setenv PHP_AUTOCONF autoconf-2.61
setenv PHP_AUTOHEADER autoheader-2.61

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4 Comments

  1. Required October 1, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    Thank you! I just want to know, who pressed the wrong button for the port?!

  2. x October 16, 2007 at 9:29 am

    Thanks. I needed this tip. Here is a small improvement:

    setenv PHP_AUTOCONF autoconf
    setenv PHP_AUTOHEADER autoheader

    Regards,
    OE

  3. zeroreturn November 5, 2007 at 7:57 am

    I saw the same error while installing PHP, but then I understood that this is not a problem with freebsd ports.

    What I did next was: “pkg_info | grep php”
    There was php5-5.1.6_3 package already, so I did “pkg_delete php5-5.1.6_3″ and started “make install clean” in the ports folder. The port was installed smoothly.

  4. George September 3, 2008 at 10:08 am

    Thanks X, I like your fix better actually.

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