Re: Re: Installing php4 in Mac Os X Server

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Richard Lynch wrote: > In article <3950C9D0.341A7776@migoz.com>, php@migoz.com (Miguel Gomez) > wrote: > > > I am trying to install php4 in a Mac Os X Server, i am using 'configure > > --with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs --with-mysql' and everything works ok, > > after that i do a 'make', and again everything works ok, but when i do a > > 'make install' it gave some messages saying that there is nothing to do > > in the dirs and it does not do anything. > > > I've heard PHP4 was compiled successfully on Yellow Dog. You now know as > much as I do about compiling PHP4 on Macs... :-^ > > Actually, there might not be anything to do for make install -- It's > possible that it's all been done, and the binaries ended up where they > belonged. make install just copies php or php.so or whatever to where it > goes, so you should be able to do that by hand... Sorry I didn't post this sooner. I've been off-list for a while. The distribution copy of libtool does not play nice with Mac OS X Server. When you make install, it ends up creating a static library. Here's how I got PHP4 to compile as an Apache module on MOSXS: - Download and install GNU libtool 1.3.5 (http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html) - In PHP4 source dir: o ./configure --with-apxs (and whatever other options you want) o mv libtool libtool.old o ln -s /usr/local/bin/libtool libtool Then make/make install. There is one large caveat. Apache starts successfully after activating the php4 module, but I cannot get it to restart thereafter unless I first comment out the LoadModule and AddModule directives for php4. dyld always complains of seemingly arbitrary undefined symbols in the php4 module. I've run into this on both MOSXS 1.02 and 1.2. My workaround to date has been a script that restarts apache with a copy of httpd.conf that has php4 removed, and then restarts again with my php4-enabled copy of httpd.conf. michael