Re: pdflib inclusion in RedHat 7.0

ola, quick note on RH7, stay away. I installed in on an in house dev machine, and promptly uninstalled it once I ran it a bit. it's full of problems, they moved all kinds of things around, the RPMs are all screwed up (the include a late-model gcc that is still buggy, for example.. I've heard terrible things about the mysql rpm) among other ickys. I'd strongly advise sticking with 6.2 until _at_least_ 7.1 comes out. or, follow oracle: when oracle 8i runs on redhat 7, I'll install redhat 7. that will be a fairly good sign that redhat 7 is up to par. ........ anyone know of a good redhat-compliant, server optimized linux distro that doesn't assume you want stupid packages for everything? who else doesn't mind downloading and compliing source to get everything the way they like it? :) _a -- Alex Black, Head Monkey enigma@turingstudio.com The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 > From: webbie@deanox.com > Newsgroups: php.general > Date: 4 Jan 2001 17:06:44 -0800 > Subject: Re: [PHP] pdflib inclusion in RedHat 7.0 > > 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >