PHP build tutorial assumes libphp5.so was built - it wasn't

Question

I'm following this tutorial http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.unix.apache2.php

I've gotten to the part where libphp5.so should magically be in modules/ after the PHP install, but it's not. I've run

find / -name libphp5.so -print

With no results. I've also backtracked the tutorial and checked if there is any mention of libphp5.so before this point - there is not.

if there a ./configure option that decides if the module gets built?

Any help appreciated

Solution

Yes.

--with-apxs=/path/to/apxs

or

--with-apxs2=/path/to/apxs

depending if you have Apache 1.x or Apache 2.x installed.

apxs is the Apache module auto-configuration system. It comes with Apache, so obviously Apache should be installed first. You can find out where apxs is installed with:

$ which apxs
/usr/local/sbin/apxs

So, if you have Apache 2.x installed, and you find apxs is in /usr/local/sbin it would be:

configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/sbin/apxs ... other args ...

You could of course combine the two steps with:

configure --with-apxs2=`which apxs`... other args ...