Re: first php 5 class

On Jan 30, 2008 5:13 PM, Greg Donald <gdonald@gmail.com> wrote: > Gentoo is a damn fun distro I must admit.. but using it for anything > besides a development server seems very risky to me. You've got the > Gentoo creat0r running off to lick salt with the M$ weiners up in WA > right when Gentoo was peaking in popularity. In less than a year he > realizes his mistake and comes back crying wanting to control stuff > again as if he had never left. Then just recently the Gentoo > leadership forgot to renew the non-profit tax status paperwork!?!? > With all that spare time waiting for things to compile I figured they > wouldn't have forgotten about such an important task. Do they not > having meetings or whatever? its a real sob story isnt it? afaik, debian hit a pretty big trough a while back before 4.0 came out. anyway, ill say this much; i go to php.net one day, there is an announcment, php 5.2.5 released. so, instinctively, i type emerge --sync; emerge php, and viola, php 5.2.5, customized for my system, no sweat. debian has 5.2.4 in unstable atm; ouch. > And where's my 2007.1 release? At the start we were getting a new > Gentoo release four times a year. live cd updates are mostly a convenience factor for new installs so they are up to date w/o any subsequent installations. but ya; i guess its kinda lame. > bottom line is emerge breaks things, and the older the Gentoo install, > the more likely the breakage will occur. it seems to be working pretty well for me. and ive worked at a couple of shops that were free bsd / gentoo shops. really no worse off than the debian shop im at now. in practice anyway. > /configure --prefix=/usr/local/php5 > --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php5/lib > --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-gettext --with-gd > --with-jpeg-dir --with-png-dir --with-freetype-dir --with-xpm-dir > --with-mcrypt --with-mhash --with-curl --enable-mbstring --with-zlib > --enable-ftp --enable-sockets --enable-bcmath --with-bz2 --enable-zip > --with-mysql --without-iconv > --with-oci8=instantclient,/opt/oracle/instantclient_10_2 > --with-pdo-oci=instantclient,/opt/oracle/instantclient_10_2,10.2 > --with-pdo-mysql --with-pdo-pgsql --with-pgsql --with-ldap > --with-openssl --with-ldap-sasl i dont know man, im not a c guy =/, but i did look at mine, built via portage. it looks like i have --enable-cli which from my reading on the php.net site is enabled by default since 4.3 and since i dont see --disable-cli in ur config im assuming it has to be enabled; so really, your guess is as good as mine :( i would assume --enable-cli adds support for the interactive interpreter.. -nathan