Compiling PHP 5 on CentOS 5 64 Bit configure: error: mysql configure failed. // Crucial Paradigm

June 3, 2009

Compiling PHP 5 on CentOS 5 64 Bit configure: error: mysql configure failed.

If you are receiving the following error while trying to compile PHP 5 on CentOS or RHEL 5 64bit:

configure: error: mysql configure failed. Please check config.log for more information.

And in the config.log you see:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so when searching for -lmysqlclient

Then add the following to your configure line:

–libdir=/usr/lib64 –with-libdir=lib64

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 6:19 pm

Carpii, on October 24th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

I was tearing my hair out with this problem, thanks so much

For anyone else, not wanting to state the obvious, but the

–libdir=/usr/lib64 –with-libdir=lib64

the dashes are two hyphens, rather than the single strange dash character the blog has substituted