Re: php 4.0.6 & SCO: intallation nitemare.. as usual...

This is mostly due to the fact that nobody tests on SCO and none of the 3 people still using SCO has volunteered to join the QA team and test the pre-releases. Feel free to do so. -Rasmus On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Gaetano Giunta wrote: > <rant> > > why o why each and every new installment of php has to take 2 to 5 days to > get up and running on a SCO box ? > > Maybe i'm just plain brain-dead... i went thru the compilation cycle for > versions 4.0.3, 4.0.4 and 4.0.6, and still it is so damn hard! (maybe I'm > just about the only one that still has to cope with that kind of > platform...) > > I don't like to play with automake+autoconf, but even if I try to run > buildconf I get into trouble: > - ./build/buildcheck.sh relies on the 'which' command, that is absent from > SCO Openserv 5.0.5 (even though I installed all of the GNU stuff that comes > pre-packages from sco skunkware and a great deal more from source). Similar > command is aptly named 'type', which under linux serves an entirely > different purpose, as far as I can recall... > > The .mk files generated by configure are not accepted by make (GNU make > 3.78.1) since build rules lines start with 2 spaces instead of a nice tab > char! > > The sockets.c file will refuse to compile, since constant h_errno is not > defined (NB: the version of the SCO developement environment I use is quite > old: 5.0.1A; in version 5.1.1A this is probably not true anymore). > > The pthreads lib () will be reported not found because when it's checked for > (line 2662 of the stock configure) it misses a -lsocket... > > Sorry for the bitterness... I'm not too sure where to post questions of this > kind. > Gaetano > > </rant> > > > > >