[LONG] Re: [PHP4BETA] Configuration problems with "kitchen sink" PHP installation

Joey, Many thanks for the helpful response -- and apologies for a delayed reply, I wanted to wait until I had useful new information to share. Recall that my original posting dealt with a series of issues related to trying to build a ":kitchen sink" version of PHP 4 under Solaris 2.6 on a SPARC platform using gcc 2.95.2. Cheerio, Rick Rodgers > From joey@samaritan.com Tue Feb 1 21:21:28 2000 > > Sorry, list, I know this first part is off topic, but maybe it is > something to be aware of in the future... > > > > I have never heard of "the depot shared software repository > > > scheme", therefore I have very little input to offer! :) > > > > I hope you *will* hear of it eventually. [deletions...] > > Out of curiosity, how does it compare/contrast with the Linux > Standars Base? (See http://www.linuxbase.org/ for info). I > personally hate > all packaging systems with a passion, because I love the bleeding edge, > and no packaging system has ever been able to keep up. The depot scheme is *not* a packaging system, it is a set of conventions for where and how you install all locally installed software in such a way as to be able to maintain multiple versions, for multiple hardware and OS types, and (optionally) share such files over a network, without going crazy or wasting time. I don't know how I ever survived without it. See http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/csd/opt_depot/opt_depot.html for information about the original ARL version -- our much-improved docs. and scripts should be out later this year... Thanks for pointing out the Linux Standards Base, which seems an important initiative (but also unrelated to either packaging or depot). > > > > FLAG: --with-aspell=/depot/package/aspell_.28.3 \ Summary: the latest aspell does not have a C interface any more and can't be built for use with PHP. Unfortunately, I can't get the older aspell *with* PHP-capable interface, version .26.2, to build yet, after several go-rounds with the author. He is working on a new C API, though it will be changed from the old one. More on this in a future posting I hope. > > > > FLAG: --with-imap=../imap_4.7a/c-client > it > > > Do not pass the location of the imap source...it is looking for > > > the installed version, in /usr/local/include, or equiv. > > > > Thanks -- this is an important point that is not made clearly in the > > PHP installation documents > > I'll grant this info could be more readily available...feel free > to contribute! :) Seriously, though, if you read > http://www.php.net/manual/ref.imap.php3, you will see the > following > paragraph: > [deletions...] Thanks! The http://www.php.net/manual/ref.XXXXXX.php3 links are a *treasure trove* of helpful information for the installer -- but where is it mentioned in the PHP installation files that one can resort to these URLs (I had not known about them, and being that they are labelled with "php3" would not have been confident that they applied in any case. The INSTALL file should mention these URLs explicitly. > Before attempting something like a "kitchen sink" install again, > I'd reccomend reading the ref.*.php3 pages on php.net, just to be > familiar with what is expected. > > > > FLAG: --with-xml=shared,/site/subsys/www/expat_1.1 \ It now appears (from reading the stuff in .../ref.XXXXXX.php3, that the expat library is *included* with recent versions of Apache, so this flag may not be required at all... > So, just to recap: the only thing missing is xml support, and > aspell, which for the time being is N/A? Is this correct? Not exactly -- but for that, please read my following posting, which brings things up to date... > --Joey Smith > > Please forgive the long sig: > > *** Notice To Bulk Emailers: Attention! Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, > Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, any & all unsolicited commercial e-mail > sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the > amount of the $1500 US and copies will be forwarded to domain > administrators. Emailing denotes acceptance of said terms! Love the sig -- ever collect any money? Got any automated aids to enforcing the announcement? 8^)