libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format

When you’re compiling apache 2.2 and upper versions, on 64 bit architectures, Fedora, Centos whatever, while running make will result in this error :

libexpat.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format

If you got this, it’s simple: you’re compiling 32 bit native apache on 64 bit architecture, so it has issues finding the lib folder.

FIX: add the following 2 lines below to the ‘./configure’ line, then rerun ‘make’.

–enable-lib64
–libdir=/usr/lib64