I'm having a hell of a time with mysql/apache/php

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:

>I installed 5.1 and need to install apache2/mysql/php. I did this a month 
>ago and it worked great. Now I cannot get any of them to install. (I'm 
>using the same cd, on a computer that is the same as the previous one). 
>The errors keep coming back to the compiler. It says 
>
>Checking if conversion of longlong to float works... segmentation fault 
>(core dumped)
>no
>configure: error: your compiler cannot convert a longlong value to a 
>float. If you are using gcc 2.8.# you should upgrade to egcs 1.0.3 or 
>newer and try again
>
>I have tried to upgrade to egcs 1.0.3 but it fails also - it's marked as 
>broken "bad c++ code". 
>Any suggestions on what to do now?
>--
>Chip
>  
>

There is a call to close(2) in one of the mysql files
that must be changed to fclose(3).

I had the same problem.  Refer to

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2003-June/004462.html

I'll take a quick look at see if I can figure out
which file it is ....

KDK