Re: --with-pear[=DIR] patch

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 06:21:50PM -0400, Stig Sther Bakken wrote: > 1. Using --datadir to determine where PEAR PHP files go. With > --datadir=/usr/share or --datadir=/usr/share/php, PHP architecture > independent files go to /usr/share/php, and PEAR's PHP files go to > /usr/share/php/pear. > > I've added your --with-pear option to override this. > > 2. Using --libdir to determine where extensions go. With > --libdir=/usr/lib or --libdir=/usr/lib/php, extensions are > installed in /usr/lib/php/<APIVER>. I've also shortened the > <APIVER> part so "no-debug" and "non-zts" are skipped. The > alternatives are now "20001222", "20001222-zts", > "20001222-debug" > and "20001222-zts-debug". Both of these sounds good to me. > 3. Using --sysconfdir to determine php.ini path. The default is now > $prefix/etc. Would this be a replacement for --with-config-file-path? > 4. The CGI version of PHP is always built and installed. I assume that would --bindir, right? > Let me know if you have any problems with these changes. They should > make it a lot easier for distributions to build PHP, because we > conform more to de-facto build conventions (at least on Linux). Also > you won't have to re-run configure and make to build the CGI in order > to run tests, the PEAR installer etc. I think you're proposed changes cover a lot more (useful) ground than my simple patch. Go for it! =) -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member