PHP PECL Extension Installation Failure

[Bjarne D Mathiesen]

John P wrote:
> I've come to a dead end on this one.  Think I'll have to resort to Linux on a
> virtual machine.

What's the libmagic library that the PHP PECL extension tries to bind to
? (http://pecl.php.net/package/Fileinfo)

The magic.h you've found in /opt/local seems to belong to the
ImageMagick package (port provides /opt/local/includes/magick/magic.h)

There's a libmagic project
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5493) but that
doesn't seem to be available from macports.

I've been able to get as far as you by going another way: following the
instructions here - http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.pecl.phpize.php
and modifying the config.m4 file in the distribution.

That means using:
pecl download fileinfo
tar -xf Fileinfo-1.0.4

My modifications to config.m4 consists of modifying one of the if
sentences - to be more specific, the statement in line 9:
if test -r $PHP_FILEINFO/includes/magick/magic.h

in line 33, I've been experimenting with diffent names for the LIBNAME
without success

After my modifications to config.m4, I executed:
phpize
./configure --with-fileinfo=/opt/local

Following this route will also give you the config.log file you've been
uable to find (http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?p=278948)

After eache change to config.m4 you'll have to do a
phpize --clean
before trying again.

I'm hoping this is of help to you :-)

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Bjarne D Mathiesen
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