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well, that indeed sounded promising, but the srpm doesn't compile on my x86_64 machine. The srpm is ok as I was able to compile and use it on an i386 machine. I even was able to change to 4.4.5 with art's spec file. No prob. On x86_64 there's many errors in the configure process, due to the lack of lib64 patches against the config.m4 files of gd, dba, etc... I'm currently creating these patches but I wonder if somebody already has done this work? I'll post them if the thing works.
Jesus ... this is hard stuff - has anybody got a good lib64 patch set in order to compile php-4.4.* on a x86_64 ? I discovered that I have to use libtool 1.4 which comes with rhel3, but it fails executing libtool : /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcrypt.so when searching for -lcrypt /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libcrypt.a when searching for -lcrypt /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libnsl.so when searching for -lnsl ... I think it's because libtool got the parameter -L/usr/lib but I can't find the place in hell where it's m4'ed together. Has anybody got an idea? TIA Michael