Question

I am trying to build PHP 5.3.6 with Apache 2.0.55 using gcc compiler in Solaris 10 SPARC.
My requirement is to build the Static portable binary of php.

Following is the configure statement I used.

./configure \
–enable-static=yes \
–prefix=/opt/genesys/gvp/php \
–with-apxs2=/opt/genesys/gvp/apache/bin/apxs \
–with-config-file-path=/opt/genesys/gvp/apache/conf \
–disable-cli \
–disable-cgi \
–with-zlib-dir=/usr/local \
–enable-bcmath \
–with-curl=/usr/local \
–with-gdbm=/usr/local \
–with-gd \
–with-png-dir=/usr/local \
–with-libxml-dir=/usr/local \
–with-xsl=/usr/local \
–with-gettext \
–with-iconv=/usr/local \
–without-mysql \
–enable-shmop \
–enable-sockets \
–enable-xml \
–with-libexpat-dir=/usr/local \
–with-iconv-dir=/usr/local \
–with-mcrypt=/usr/local \
–without-pear \
–with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \
–enable-maintainer-zts \
–without-sqlite \
–without-sqlite3 \
–without-pdo-sqlite \
–with-oci8=instantclient,/tmp/instantclient_10_2

I enabled to build with static libraries using –enable-static=yes but still the output of configure shows negative

checking whether stripping libraries is possible… no
checking if libtool supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build static libraries… no

Even if I execute ldd on libphp5 after make and make install it still shows it is referring to libraries externally.

Can you please help me how to do the static build? Thanks.

Answer 1

just tried

./configure --enable-static

and output was

checking whether stripping libraries is possible… yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build shared libraries… no
checking whether to build static libraries… yes`

can’t say that I understand why you have different result

Can you please verify, it won’t enable static building when you use just simple command as I ?