Installing AutoConf and Fixing Phpize on OSX 10.9

autoconf-phpize-xampp

Installing AutoConf and Fixing Phpize on OSX 10.9

Installing AutoConf and Fixing Phpize on OSX 10.9

When setting up my development environment on my new Mac (running OSX 10.8) I noticed autoconf was missing. Autoconf is used by phpize to compile php extensions like xdebug and is something I use on a reasonably frequent basis.

The error I got when trying to run php on the xdebug extension was:

Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.

ERROR: `phpize’ failed

When running previous versions of OSX autoconf has either been included (<10.6) or available by installing xcode and the development command line tools. However after installing the latest version of xcode (4.3) I found autoconf absent from there as well!

The solution I came up with was to compile autoconf from source and set the environment variable which points to autoconf required by phpize.

Download autoconf
curl http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.gz > autoconf.tar.gz

Untar the autoconf archive
tar -xvzf autoconf.tar.gz

Configure and make – note the folder un-archived may have a different name.
cd autoconf-2.69
./configure
sudo make && sudo make install

This installs autoconf to ‘/usr/local/bin/autoconf’. In order to get phpize to work set the PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable to point to the newly installed autoconf.

export PHP_AUTOCONF=/usr/local/bin/autoconf

Running phpize when attempting to compile a php extension should now work.

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-bash: autoconf.tar.gz: Permission denied :(

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Brilliant - worked for me on El Capitan. Thanks.

quicker way of doing this: (using homebrew)
brew install autoconf
if you dont have homebrew, i strongly recomend getting it from http://brew.sh/

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Note: even if you are using brew install autoconf, you will still need to manually export the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable, using: export PHP_AUTOCONF=/usr/local/bin/autoconf.

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