[PHP4BETA] new configure approach

I have started working on making it possible to build shared PHP extensions without the presence of the PHP source code. The approach resembles that of apxs for Apache (which again is based on something from Perl?) Since Zend and PHP4 have both moved towards producing reusable libraries, a logical next step would be to install them and the header files necessary to use them when PHP installed. Anyway, I have changed Zend (not checked in yet) to "make install" libzend.a to $prefix/lib/zend and its header files to $prefix/include/zend, and PHP to install its include files in $prefix/include/php. The idea is to also install "phpxs" in $prefix/bin/ and make it possible to build extensions using phpxs in different modes for compiling, linking and installing files. Then, extensions can be distributed separately, completely self-contained, with their own configure scripts and so on. Distribution maintainers should dig that. The thing that bothers me about this right now is that copying config.h and other stuff generated with configure to $prefix/include/php is stupid. I have not yet figured out a solution for this, so let's hear it from you guys :-) - Stig -- PHP 4 Beta