configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (char *)

[diggs]

I do not believe this to be an issue w/ litespeed but I thought someone else here may have run into this issue.

I'm having an issue when compiling php(5.2.6 or 5.2.8) with the litespeed api, that I've never seen before.

OS = Cent 5.2
php = 5.2.8
mysql = 5.1.3
lsws & lsapi are most current avail

If I configure php without a ./buildconf --force to incorporate the litespeed api, it compiles fine.

If I touch ac* , ./buildconf --force, and compile as I've always done in the past without issue, I'm getting an error on compile as follows.

checking size of char *... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (char *), 77 
See `config.log' for more details.

I seem to have narrowed this down to being an issue w/ the running of ./buildconf.
I've tried autoconf213 as well as newest avail for distro autoconf259 w/ the same error in end.

I did some digging first and found a few references to gcc and/or c++ being the culprit here. I've installed the most recent available through centos repositories.

I also found some people that had this being a library path issue.

I'm not confident that either is the case here seeing as it compiles just fine so long as I don't rebuild the config (which I have to, to build the lsapi).

Here is the resulting config.log file > config.log

Any input/tips on this would be awesome. I'm stumped.

Thank you very much!

[mistwang]

the root cause of it should be

./conftest: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.so.16: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

in the config.log

[diggs]

While I'm not quite sure exactly what this issue was, this allowed me to compile fully and get the server up and running w/ new php no problem.

Granted this post was applicable towards apache, it has helped me here. I would love to know exactly what the issue was here if anyone knows.

Referring post > HERE

... in this case the issue is ... the security setting for SELinux that was selected at the time the operating system was installed. To get past the problem and allow the PHP Install to complete, we just turned enforcement off ..

setenforce 0

I was able to continue install and had no further issues w/ setup after this.

Possibly the permission denied errors in my config.log were actually caused by this instead?

Thank you.

[mistwang]

Yes, I think it is related to SELinux.