Re: ./configure stupidity

please please would you help me to get mysql - gd - iodbc (odbc) - mssql - apache .... I need to upgrade because i need the new one with iodbc support not unixODBC. and i need it with ofcourse ( mysql - gd - iodbc (odbc) - mssql - apache .... ) I have read so many articles all over the web, and i reffered to php.net ... MY PROBLEM is that i m new to linux and when it come to specify the DIR , i got lost... and when i make the ./configure , then make then make install ,, i got errors always .., i untared the file in /usr/local/src and after everything done , i echo phpinfo() and i got the version still there !!! I installed RedHat 7.3 ... the current php that came with redhat is perfectly working just i need to make mssql and iodbc work... so if there any other way please help me.. Please help me in details "Cristian Marin" <cristic@iakt.rdsnet.ro> wrote in message news:20030701065340.1365.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I think it's very good as it is. ./configure actually is almost a standard > for every compilation and is not ment to be used by a programmer but by a > system admins. Linux is not Windows. If you really want to learn to compile > a php create in a day or two a complete line with everything you ever think > you need about php or compile them as modules, save the config line in a > file and keep it on a CD. From version to version are very few changes to > the ./configure options. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > Cristian MARIN - Developer > InterAKT Online (www.interakt.ro) > Tel: +4021 312.53.12 > Tel/Fax: +4021 312.51.91 > cristic@interakt.ro > "Nico Sabbi" <nsabbi@officinedigitali.it> wrote in message > news:BDEPJJPHDIGCJOBMFPHCMEJBIDAA.nsabbi@officinedigitali.it... > > > > Hi, > > > > I wonder why at compile time ./configure doesn't automatically detect > what > > features are compilable and what not, so as to > > build in php as much as possible. > > > > There isn't even such an option available, with the result that everytime > I > > recompile PHP I end-up missing some group of functions > > that I didn't expect to need. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Nico > > > > > >