[nonhuman]

I'm trying to install the ssh2 PECL extension for PHP, but I'm running into some problems. The ss2 package requires libssh2, so I downloaded that from sourceforge and ran the installation commands './configure && make all install'. That goes through all the configuration and installation and then tells me 'make: `install' is up to date.'.

So then I try to install ssh2 with the 'pear install ssh2-0.9' command. That does it's thing then gives me this error 'configure: error: The required libssh2 library was not found. You can obtain that package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libssh2/
`/private/tmp/tmpNqUJ7w/ssh2-0.9/configure' failed'.

So it looks like libssh2 is failing to actually install. I've done some google searching and, as usual, found a bunch of people reporting the exact same problem but not a single person explaining how to fix it.

Has anyone here run into this issue or have any idea what I can do to fix it? It really does look like the libssh2 install just isn't working as the prefix in the make file is set to /usr/local, and there's nothing in /usr/local or /usr/local/lib that has anything to do with ssh2.

[madmacgames]

I have never been able to install any PECL extension using PEAR on OS X. You would probably be better off just getting the source and compiling it manually.

I don't think PEAR will install libssh2 for you, but I could be wrong. I think that is what that message is saying. You want to go to that URL, download the source, and compile and install it.

I would also then just install the ssh2 PECL extension manually as well.

[nonhuman]

Yeah, PEAR won't install libssh2, I did download the source and tried installing it in the normal UNIX way (./configure && make [all] install). I'll try installing ssh2 without using PEAR.

Thanks.

[nonhuman]

Still complains that libssh2 isn't installed, so I'm pretty sure the problem is with the libssh2 installation process.

[madmacgames]

How did you attempt to install libssh2? Were there any errors during its install process?

The usual OS X method for installing unix stuff is:
./configure
make
sudo make install

You must run the install part as root, hence the sudo. An admin account is not good enough.

[nonhuman]

I did:

Code:
sudo su -
./configure
make all install

'make all install' is what the install instructions for libssh2 say to use. I also tried several variations on the make command including just the usual 'make install' and 'make && make install'.

[edit: and in between the various make commands I put a 'make clean' just to be sure]