Re: Getting PHP CLI on machine without compiling or changing the other part of the system

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:05 +1000, Chris wrote: > Peter Lauri wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In a current project we have developed a piece of software that run > > independently and that only requires php5 as a CLI component. > > > > Now we want to use this software on other machines, and the only requirement > > it that the machine has php5 installed. Fine for now, but then we have > > started to get request from clients to use this on their machines, as they > > need our software there. Then we informed them that we need to compile php > > on their machine. But due to the sensitive machines that they have, they > > rejected that idea. So now we need to find a way to have PHP5 on the > > machine, without compiling it on their machine and changing their > > environment. > > Must be pretty sensitive machines. What sort of system is it? redhat > based? debian? something else? > > You could create a package of some sort, build that on your machine and > send that to them. > > Providing: > - you're running the same versions (of the main packages - gcc, libc) > - you're on the same type of hardware (i386 compared to amd64 etc). > > Even easier - if you're using php that doesn't require any extra > components (ie you don't need something like pcntl which isn't in the > base php5-cli packages), just get them to install the appropriate package. > > If they're running gentoo or *bsd which are pretty much compile-only > systems, then you're out of luck. VMWare is your friend. Create a guest of their OS of choice and build there. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................