[php-maint] packaging php 5.2.5 in squeeze

[Siri Vias Khalsa]

Hi and thanks for your time.

We are in the process of migrating a large php application from RHEL to
Debian, and there are some issues with it in later versions of php than
5.2.5. We ahve alot of test failures simply changing php from 5.2.5 to
5.2.6 let alone 5.2.10.

We are investigating fixes, but meanwhile I want to move the project
forward and I am trying to build a deb package for 5.2.5.

I found a debian folder for 5.2.5-3 in the SVN repository, and I have
resolved some library changes, but I am currently getting stuck when
debuild is trying to run ./configure.

It looks like it is due to the version of automake or something similar,
here is a snippet of the output:

....thousands of similar lines....
../configure: 11607: checking for ANSI C header files... : not found
../configure: 11706: ac_fn_c_try_compile: not found
../configure: 11708: 5: Bad file descriptor
../configure: 11708: :: result: no: not found
../configure: 11708: 6: Bad file descriptor
../configure: 11708: no: not found
../configure: 11756: ac_cv_header_dirent_dirent.h: not found
../configure: 11756: 5: Bad file descriptor
../configure: 11756: :: checking for dirent.h that defines DIR: not
found
../configure: 11756: 6: Bad file descriptor
../configure: 11756: checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... : not
found
eval: 1: Bad substitution
make: *** [configure-apache2-stamp] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1324:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc failed


Do you have any guidance on where we can try from here?


Thanks,

-Siri Vias

Siri Vias Khalsa
sirivias.khalsa at verifi.com

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