Re: pdflib inclusion in RedHat 7.0
| From: | webbie at deanox dot com | Date: | Fri, 05 Jan 2001 01:07:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pdflib inclusion in RedHat 7.0 | ||
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Quoting Richard Lynch <richard@zend.com>:
> > Then, I presume that I should grab RedHat's PHP src.rpm from:
> > ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/php-4.0.3pl1-1.src.rpm
> > (perhaps replacing the tarball with php-4.0.4 and adjust the .spec
> file
> > appropriately???)
> > and rebuild the RPM and then freshen/update the RPM installation?
> >
> > Is that all that it will take to get pdf support?
>
> Probably, but...
>
> By the time you do all that to the .src.rpm, you could probably compile
> PHP
> from source, which may give you some more flexibility. There are about
> 50
> compile-time options of which modules to include. The odds on RedHat
> picking the ones you want are therefore about 1 in a bazillion.
Would you sugggest, then, that I 'rpm -e' (remove) the RedHat PHP installation,
and then compile from source my own? I looked, but I didn't see a --with-
pdflib compile option. Is there one?
Thanks.
Lee Howard