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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

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.