PHP installation problem

Am 13. Nov, 2003 schw=E4tzte Charlie Bullen so:

> I have a Mandrake 9.1 installation that I am attepmting to install PHP4
> on. I start with the following tarball, php-4.3.4.tar.gz.Unzipping and
> un taring go fine, but when I go to ./configure , I get an error message
> as follows,

Charlie,

follow Kevin's advice. Unless you're trying to find out how to compile from
source use the packages for your distribution.

At some other point you might find that the distribution's packages don't
meet your needs, which will cause you to need to compile from source. Until
that time save yourself the trouble, though :).

> checking for flex... lex
> checking for yywrap in -ll... no
> checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 2425: lex: command
> not found
> configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up

Hmmm. Looks like it found lex, but then couldn't use it.

Use your package manager to install lex if you continue with installing fro=
m
source.

I don't know how to search for what package owns lex in the RPM-world. A
trip to rpmfind might take care of that.

ciao,

der.hans
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