I'm trying to upgrade to PHP 5.2 on a Linux machine (RedHat). For the
"./configure" step, I copied the configure command exactly as it appears
in the results of "php -i". When I run it in the new installation
folder, I get a message telling me that the program can't find the MySQL
header files in the location specified, and warns me that MySQL is no
longer bundled with PHP. (The location specified is "/usr".)
I've looked around on the Internet, and apparently one key file is
"mysql.h". Indeed, there is no such file under /usr/include/, though
there are tons of other header files. I used "find" to locate the file,
and it's nowhere on the server. (I didn't setup the server, the hosting
company did that.) I guess the header files don't exist if MySQL comes
bundled with the server, or something like that? I'm not sure. My server
is running MySQL 5.0.45.
Some have suggested that, rather than re-installing MySQL (ugh), you
simply run this command: "yum install mysql-devel". When I do that, the
program analyzes my system and tells me it needs to update two packages:
"mysql" and "mysql-server". I don't like the sound of that. I don't want
to change anything to do with MySQL, I just want my new version of PHP
to work with it. What should I do?
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