Installing php redis with igbinary, header file is not found

Question

I'm trying to install the phpredis extension, but no luck.

After running the command ./configure --enable-redis-igbinary, I've received the following error:

checking for igbinary includes... configure: error: Cannot find igbinary.h

igbinary was installed using PECL, but looks like the header files are not being found.

Answer 1

This problem is probably caused because PECL is installing the header files to a location different from the one that is used during the installation of phpredis. You can confirm this by looking at the console messages.

$> sudo pecl install igbinary

Build process completed successfully Installing
'/usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/igbinary.so'
Installing '/usr/include/php/ext/igbinary/igbinary.h'

$> ./configure --enable-redis-igbinary

checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/local/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... re2c checking for re2c version... 0.13.5 (ok)
checking for gawk... gawk checking whether to enable redis support...
yes, shared checking whether to enable sessions... yes checking
whether to enable igbinary serializer support... yes checking for
igbinary includes... configure: error: Cannot find igbinary.h

Just move the igbinary folder to the correct location:

$> cp /usr/include/php/ext/igbinary /usr/local/include/php/ext/igbinary -fr

And it should correctly find the igbinary header file:

checking whether to enable igbinary serializer support... yes
checking for igbinary includes... /usr/local/include/php