Installing Xdebug for PHP on Ubuntu with XAMPP

I'm running XAMPP 1.7.3a on Ubuntu 9.10. With Netbeans 6.7.1 as my editor, I want to be able to debug my PHP sites.

To do this, I looked up Xdebug and started following the installation instructions, found here: http://xdebug.org/docs/install.

Trying to compile the .tgz file, run in to a problem.

Step 3) I can execute that, but what use does it have? I don't get the output or what I should do with it.

Step 4) I execute the following command:

./configure --enable-xdebug --with-php-config=/opt/lampp/etc/

At the bottom of the output, it says: configure:

error: Cannot find php-config. Please use --with-php-config=PATH

I've checked the location I entered, the php.ini file is there and so are all other config files.

So, I'm not sure what to do now. Should I ignore and just do the 'make' command, or does something else yet need to be done?

you have to pass the path to the php config binary - should be something like

/opt/lampp/bin/php-config

All the binaries in XAMPP are located in

/opt/lampp/bin

That's why if you work with XAMPP's PHP version you ought to proceed all operations using binaries from there.

For example, after installation of XAMPP it's possible to set path to it's PHP bin file.