Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #5046: Install tries to put stuff in /usr/local even when --prefix is specified

Thanks for a rapid response. On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 jtaskine@hit.fi wrote: >On 14 Jun 2000 jleffler@informix.com wrote: > >>From: jleffler@informix.com >>Operating system: Solaris 7 >>PHP version: 4.0.0 Release >>PHP Bug Type: Installation problem >>Bug description: Install tries to put stuff in /usr/local even when --prefix is specified >> >>configure line: >>./configure --prefix=/usr/php/v4.0.0 --with-mysql=/usr/mysql >>--with-apxs=/usr/apache/v1.3.12/bin/apxs --with-informix --with-exec-dir=/usr/php/v4.0.0/bin >> >>Note that the addition of --with-exec-dir is symptomatic of the problem. >> >>The configure.in script sets the location of the php.ini file around line 412. It gets >>around to looking at --prefix around line 677. >> > >Add --with-config-file-path=/usr/php/v4.0.0/conf to the ./configure line. >(or what ever you want the path to you php.ini file to be.) > >--Jani > >Note to developers: Would it be possible to place this option >in the beginning of the list ./configure --help prints ?? > >Maybe people would notice it then? And name it something like >--config-prefix= or whatever. At least for me that --with.. is a bit >confusing with this option. With other autoconfigured software, setting --prefix overrides the default location for everything, unless you specifically override the --prefix value. Shouldn't the same be true of PHP? And is that the only thing that wasn't relocated by the combination of --with-exec-dir and --prefix? In my view, I should not have had to specify --with-exec-dir either once --prefix was specified; after all, my chosen --with-exec-dir is under --prefix. I absolutely accept that this is probably a valid workaround; I remain to be convinced it should be necessary. -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler (Jonathan.Leffler@Informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"