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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Required 10.01.07 at 3:57 pm
Thank you! I just want to know, who pressed the wrong button for the port?!
x 10.16.07 at 9:29 am
Thanks. I needed this tip. Here is a small improvement:
setenv PHP_AUTOCONF autoconf
setenv PHP_AUTOHEADER autoheader
Regards,
OE
zeroreturn 11.05.07 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.
George 09.03.08 at 10:08 am
Thanks X, I like your fix better actually.
simoncpu 09.16.08 at 1:44 am
Thanks!!! This really helped me a lot.