Posted by Jack Orenstein on 12/03/06 06:57

I'm trying to configure PHP 5.2.0 with support for Postgres
8.1.3. Postgres was installed with FC5 without source. PHP's configure
needs source. When I run configure:

configure: error: Cannot find libpq-fe.h. Please specify
correct PostgreSQL installation path

I tried downloading Postgres source and modifying PHPs configure to
point to it, and that worked. But then compilation failed, e.g.

In file included from /home/jao/php-5.2.0/ext/pgsql/php_pgsql.h:32,
from /home/jao/php-5.2.0/ext/pgsql/pgsql.c:45:
/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.1.4/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h:29:26:
error: postgres_ext.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /home/jao/php-5.2.0/ext/pgsql/php_pgsql.h:32,
from /home/jao/php-5.2.0/ext/pgsql/pgsql.c:45:
/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.1.4/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h:317:
error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token

Then I thought I'd uninstall the postgres RPMs and build postgres from
scratch, but there are dependencies on postgres:

libpq.so.4 is needed by (installed) apr-util-1.2.2-4.2.i386
libpq.so.4 is needed by (installed) dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7.i386
libpq.so.4 is needed by (installed) perl-DBD-Pg-1.43-2.2.2.i386

And I really don't want to unravel my entire set of RPMs.


So I have two questions:

1) Does PHP 5.2.0 support Postgres 8.x? The compilation errors, and
some of the postgres paths in the configure file suggest that it might
not.

2) How can I get PHP configured to support postgres?


Jack Orenstein

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