compiling PHP

[Sean]

It can get tricky compiling it. I do it, BUT explicitly use shell scripts
and make changes to those to add/delete options or if I have problems with
a compilation I dont have to remember all the options I was using (or
retype them) Something like:

root@phish php-4.0]# cat go.php4 
rm config.cache
./configure  \
--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \
--with-xml \
--with-mysql \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-trans-sid \
--with-gd \
--enable-magic-quotes ; 
make ; 
make install 


On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Jeff Goeke-Smith wrote:

> 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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