Re: FreeBSD newbie (not PHP newbie)

Thanks for the info guys, but I'm still a bit lost... where can I find this fantastic GUI you talk of Danny? Surely you don't mean CVSUPIT? "Danny Shepherd" <danny@kyboshed.com> wrote in message news:01ed01c23d58$04fb9c50$0200a8c0@DANNYS... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Schroebel" <MSchroebel@hsus.org> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; <php-install@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:53 PM > Subject: RE: [PHP] FreeBSD newbie (not PHP newbie) > > > > > From: Andy Triggs [mailto:andyt@tribalddb.co.uk] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 6:21 AM > > > To: php-general@lists.php.net; php-install@lists.php.net > > > Subject: [PHP] FreeBSD newbie (not PHP newbie) > > > > > > The ports collection is new to me, as is cvsupit, but from > > > what I can gather > > > things aren't going to be pretty if I simply try to compile > > > the PHP from the > > > source as I would on, say, RedHat, and plug it in to Apache with APXS. > > > > I'm running Apache 1.3.26, with php on Freebsd and always compile from > source, not ports. There's so many options building php, and the ports for > php are vanilla. > > If you consider an full (textbased) GUI with which to choose the compile > options vanilla, then yes it is. The ports collection is also used to build > the various dependancies for the chosen compile options - so if an option, > such as IMAP, isn't installed then the latest version is built along with > PHP - making much more convient than building from tarballs and it just > blows away the RPM system. > > Here's my 'vanilla' build - > http://phpinfo.kyboshed.com/ > > HTH > > Danny. > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >