./configure error when building with NixOS

[iluuu1994]

Description

./configure emits an error on NixOS when executing /usr/bin/file conftest.o:

php-src/build/libtool.m4

Line 623 in b438e2b

case `/usr/bin/file conftest.o` in

./configure: line 84230: /usr/bin/file: No such file or directory

The build succeeds regardless, so it's not a huge issue.

file does not live in /usr/bin on NixOS, as the binaries depend on the environment. Instead, they can be looked up with /usr/bin/env. /usr/bin/env file conftest.o works as expected, but it seems that passing further arguments to env is not portable. Maybe we can just depend on file being provided in the current $PATH?

@petk I already pinged on on Slack about this, but you might not be very active there. 🙂

PHP Version

PHP 8.2+

Operating System

NixOS

[petk]

This is fixed in Libtool 2.4.7 and can be done via #13476

[iluuu1994]

That's great! Thank you!