I've been trying to get Gearman compiled on CentOS 5.8 all afternoon. Unfortunately I am restricted to this version of CentOS by my CTO and how he has our entire network configured. I think it's simply because we don't have enough resources to upgrade our network... But anyways, the problem at hand.

I have searched through Server Fault, Stack Overflow, Google, and am unable to locate a working solution. What I have below is stuff I have pieced together from my searching.

Searches have told said to install the following via yum:

yum -y install --enablerepo=remi boost141-devel libgearman-devel e2fsprogs-devel e2fsprogs gcc44 gcc-c++

To get the Boost headers working correctly I did this:

cp -f /usr/lib/boost141/* /usr/lib/
cp -f /usr/lib64/boost141/* /usr/lib64/
rm -f /usr/include/boost
ln -s /usr/include/boost141/boost /usr/include/boost

With all of the dependancies installed and paths setup I then download and compile gearmand-1.1.2 just fine.

wget -O /tmp/gearmand-1.1.2.tar.gz https://launchpad.net/gearmand/1.2/1.1.2/+download/gearmand-1.1.2.tar.gz
cd /tmp && tar zxvf gearmand-1.1.2.tar.gz
./configure && make -j8 && make install

That works correctly. So now I need to install the Gearman library for PHP. I have attempted through PECL and downloading the source directly, both result in the same error:

checking whether to enable gearman support... yes, shared
not found
configure: error: Please install libgearman

What I don't understand is I installed the libgearman-devel package which also installed the core libgearman. The installation installs libgearman-devel-0.14-3.el5.x86_64, libgearman-devel-0.14-3.el5.i386, libgearman-0.14-3.el5.x86_64, and libgearman-0.14-3.el5.i386.

Is it possible the package version is lower than what is required? I'm still poking around with this, but figured I'd throw this up to see if anyone has a solution while I continue to research a fix.

Thanks!