PHP 7.2 or 7.4 won't update due to error

[crazygrape]

Trying to update php 7.2 and 7.4 and get the following error at the end:

• configure: error: Unable to find required gettext library
• 
  
• *** There was an error while trying to configure php. Check the configure file
• 
  
• Done!

Anyone any ideas? gettext is installed so is gettext dev

 

[youds]

Are you using a custom configure script, and if so, does it specify the location of gettext? If not, maybe try enabling it.

 

[crazygrape]

Thanks for the reply. I am not using any custom scripts. How do I enable it? Thanks

 

[youds]

From within DirectAdmin control panel under CustomBuild go to Customise Compilation and add in --with-gettext=/path/to/folder

 

[crazygrape]

From within DirectAdmin control panel under CustomBuild go to Customise Compilation and add in --with-gettext=/path/to/folder

Excellent thanks for your help. There does not seem to be a lot of help on the net for gettext.
Would you know how to find the path of gettext as nothing being thrown up in Google?

 

[LawsHosting]

Most things are normally in /usr/local/.... so do a ls -la /usr/local, see if it's there.

 

[Wanabo]

Use the whereis command.

[root@ ~]# whereis gettext
gettext: /usr/bin/gettext /usr/bin/gettext.sh /usr/lib64/gettext /usr/share/gettext /usr/share/man/man1/gettext.1.gz /usr/share/info/gettext.info.gz

 

[floyd]

On CentOS gettext is /usr/bin/gettext if it is installed. It looks like you may not have it installed so

yum install gettext

 

[crazygrape]

Thanks for all the help and replies, I ended up rebuilding the server from scratch and restoring the accounts from backup.All running perfect now.

 

[floyd]

So you didn't actually learn how to fix it.

 

[crazygrape]

So you didn't actually learn how to fix it.

I had other problems affecting a few sites so due to pressure from one client I rebuilt it. When you have good backups it doesn't take that long.