Re: Re: second/custom PEAR/PECL installation. possible? how?

Greg Beaver wrote: > Eric Butera wrote: > >> My work machine is a OS X iMac that has Apple's php4 standard, plus I >> have a php4 and php5 custom compiled myself. I've been able to issue >> sudo /path/to/php4/bin/pear or /path/to/php5/bin/pear and that >> installs the packages correctly for each version that I want. >> Apparently this practice is completely wrong given that long string of >> commands seen above. I'll still have to actually install pear/pecl for my custom php5 install, given that it was installed without pear to begin with. > > Hi Eric, > > For defaults, PEAR relies on a number of constants, including > PHP_SYSCONFDIR and PHP_LIBDIR. If these are in fact different for php4 > and php5, then yes, your PEAR will "just work" without change. > > So no, that practice is completely right :) > > I had forgotten this is a possibility, so you might just try it out > Jochem and see if it works. I will definitely look into it. either way I now have a better solution than baking & installing APC by hand. thanks to everyone for their input. > > Greg >