compiling PHP

[Jeff Goeke-Smith]

For the initial question, IIRC, to compile php as an apache module, you must
have first done a compile of apache its self.  In other words, it's
challenging to do a full compile and install of PHP as an apache module
without having done a compile and install of apache first.  So here's a
starter question, have you done a full compile of apache already?

Second, yes, there are packages in RH6.1 (and likely RH6.0 and RH6.2) that
give you php pre-compiled in certain configs that work with the packaged
install of apache.

As for doing packages for all the possible configurations of PHP, it's is
really hard as there are n big configuration options (where n is about 15)
and therefore, having packages of all the individually configured options
would be around 2^15 different packages, somewhere around 32 thousand
possibilities.  That is alot.  That said, Redhat and Debian ( I just
installed it) come with some very general configs of php that will work in
most cases.  I highly recommend using the included packages with your distro
rather than doing a compile of it, unless you have very specific needs.

--Jeff Goeke-Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Marcel Kunath
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 4:54 PM
> To: Cory Spitz
> Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: compiling PHP
>
>
> Aren't there any precompiled packages for apache php mysql in
> redhat/mandrake?
> I know from the past that compiling this stuff is a pain and
> I would hope this
> is part of the distributions work to offer packages for this.
>
> > > Hi, >   I'm
> trying to compile PHP.  I use the configure
> script > --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs and it says
> that it can't find
> > apxs
> > or that I need to install Perl, but perl is already installed to
> > /usr/bin/perl.  Does anybody know what I can do from here?  I'm not
> > exactly an expert.
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> > -Cory
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