SOLVED Can't Install XDiff on PHP7

[batgranny]

I'm trying to install XDiff or PHP 7.0 using the pecl module installer. It is failing and I am getting the following error:

checking for xdiff files in default path... not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the libxdiff distribution

My full install log file is:

downloading xdiff-2.0.1.tgz ...
Starting to download xdiff-2.0.1.tgz (10,418 bytes)
.....done: 10,418 bytes
4 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20151012
Zend Module Api No: 20151012
Zend Extension Api No: 320151012
libxdiff library installation dir? [autodetect] : building in /root/tmp/pear/pear-build-rootRxTYpi/xdiff-2.0.1
running: /root/tmp/pear/xdiff/configure --with-php-config=/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/bin/php-config --with-xdiff
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix... /opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr
checking for PHP includes... -I/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/include/php -I/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/include/php/main -I/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/include/php/TSRM -I/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/include/php/Zend -I/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/include/php/ext -I/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/lib64/php/modules
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for xdiff support... yes, shared
checking for xdiff files in default path... not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the libxdiff distribution
ERROR: `/root/tmp/pear/xdiff/configure --with-php-config=/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/bin/php-config --with-xdiff' failed

My server details are:

CENTOS 6.9 x86_64 hyper-v – fs-mg-1 WHM 62.0 (build 20)

What can I do to resolve this?

 

[JacobPerkins]

Hi,

As per the message 'configure: error: Please reinstall the libxdiff distribution', have you installed libxdiff? That doesn't come from CentOS repositories, so you'll likely need to compile this piece of software manually.

 

[batgranny]

Thanks for the help and you are exactly right. It turns out I'd actually fixed this on another server and made a note of it. For anyone that might have the same issue, this is how to install libxdiff:

cd /usr/src
   wget [URL]http://www.xmailserver.org/libxdiff-0.22.tar.gz[/URL]
   tar -xzf libxdiff-0.22.tar.gz
   cd libxdiff-0.22
   ./configure
   make
   make install

Thanks again!