PHP Error

[snet]

Whenever I type ./configure to start the installation of PHP it gives the following error:

Checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 2425: lex: command not found
configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.

[tashirosgt]

See if lex is on your machine. On the FC1 machine I'm at now, it is /usr/bin/lex which is a link to /usr/bin/flex.
If the file is present then the problem is probably with your path. Use the command
echo $PATH
or the command
env
to see that /usr/bin is in you PATH.

[kosmosik]

% apt-get install flex

you are missing flex package...

[fjleal]

Whenever I type ./configure to start the installation of PHP it gives the following error:

Checking lex output file root... ./configure: line 2425: lex: command not found
configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks.
You probably shouldn't install PHP from source in Fedora. Use the Add/Remove Applications interface, there's an RPM with the latest PHP inyour installation ISOs.

[superbnerd]

it is also possible to just use yum or apt yum install php or apt-get install php

[kosmosik]

well I've assumed the guy here wan't to install PHP5 :) is it packaged somehow for Fedora? it should be as Fedora is bleeding edge... I've recently built (sorry no rpms now) PostgreSQL and Mono to support my projects so I can understand need of compiling anything (even hardcore things like web accessed scripting engines) myself...

[ewdi]

just a warning, many web application is broken in PHP5 :(

[foolish]

PHP5 isn't ready for prime time yet. It'll be included in Fedora once people start using it seriously.