Date: 03/31/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web

Hello,

I'm currently attempting to install PHP on my webhost, to support my MediaWiki installation.


Installation script (it had a bunch of other libraries but I took them out as they didn't seem to be problematic, to try and isolate the problem):

#!/bin/sh

# Abort on any errors
set -e

# The domain in which to install the PHP CGI script.
export DOMAIN="mydomain"

# Where do you want all this stuff built? I'd recommend picking a local
# filesystem.
# ***Don't pick a directory that already exists!***  We clean up after
# ourselves at the end!
SRCDIR=${HOME}/source

# And where should it be installed?
INSTALLDIR=${HOME}/php5

# Set DISTDIR to somewhere persistent, if you plan to muck around with this
# script and run it several times!
DISTDIR=${HOME}/dist

# Pre-download clean up!!!!
rm -fr $SRCDIR $DISTDIR

# Update version information here.
PHP5="php-5.2.0"
GMP="gmp-4.2.1"

# What PHP features do you want enabled?
PHPFEATURES="--prefix=${INSTALLDIR} \
 --with-gmp"

# ---- end of user-editable bits. Hopefully! ----

# Push the install dir's bin directory into the path
export PATH=${INSTALLDIR}/bin:$PATH

#setup directories
mkdir -p ${SRCDIR}
mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR}
mkdir -p ${DISTDIR}
cd ${DISTDIR}

# Get all the required packages
wget -c http://us3.php.net/distributions/${PHP5}.tar.gz
wget -c http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/gmp/${GMP}.tar.gz

echo ---------- Unpacking downloaded archives. This process may take several minutes! ----------

cd ${SRCDIR}
# Unpack them all
echo Extracting ${PHP5}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${PHP5}.tar.gz
echo Done.
echo Extracting ${GMP}...
tar xzf ${DISTDIR}/${GMP}.tar.gz
echo Done.

# Build them in the required order to satisfy dependencies.

# gmp
cd ${SRCDIR}/${GMP}
./configure --prefix=${INSTALLDIR}
# make clean
make
make install

#PHP 5
cd ${SRCDIR}/${PHP5}
./configure ${PHPFEATURES}
# make clean
make
make install


#copy config file
mkdir -p ${INSTALLDIR}/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}
cp ${SRCDIR}/${PHP5}/php.ini-dist ${INSTALLDIR}/etc/php5/${DOMAIN}/php.ini

#copy PHP CGI
mkdir -p ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin
chmod 0755 ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin
cp ${INSTALLDIR}/bin/php ${HOME}/${DOMAIN}/cgi-bin/php.cgi
rm -fr $SRCDIR $DISTDIR
echo ---------- INSTALL COMPLETE! ----------

Configuring extensions
[...]
checking for GNU gettext support... no
checking for GNU MP support... yes
configure: error: Unable to locate gmp.h

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/557682.html