Should I yum install php or compile it?

[mrbog]

For those of you with red hat or fedora, do you yum install php or do
you compile it?

[ZeldorBlat]

On Jul 11, 3:45 pm, mrbog <dterr...@hotma il.comwrote:

For those of you with red hat or fedora, do you yum install php or do
you compile it?

Compile it.

[Sjoerd]

mrbog wrote:

For those of you with red hat or fedora, do you yum install php or do
you compile it?

Installing it from a package gives you a fairly standard PHP
installation. For my distribution, it is even possible to add extensions
using packages. However, if you want the latest version, extension for
which no packages exists, or some other option which does not come with
the package, you have to compile PHP yourself. Compiling PHP is fairly
easy, but takes several minutes. Installing all the libraries for the
extensions can be hard.

In some cases, it is a good idea to make your own package, so that the
packaging system knows PHP is installed and does not bug you with
dependencies.

Sjoerd

[Toby A Inkster]

Sjoerd wrote:

Installing it from a package gives you a fairly standard PHP
installation. For my distribution, it is even possible to add extensions
using packages. However, if you want the latest version, extension for
which no packages exists, or some other option which does not come with
the package, you have to compile PHP yourself.

Installing PHP using your package manager shouldn't preclude you from
compiling additional modules yourself.

My main development machine has PHP installed via Mandriva's URPMI tool,
but I've compiled the pdo and pdo_pgsql extensions myself.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
[OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 21 days, 13:34.]

demiblog 0.2.0 Released
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/0...emiblog-0.2.0/

[mrbog]

On Jul 12, 5:58 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@t obyinkster.co.u k>
wrote:

Sjoerd wrote:

Installing it from a package gives you a fairly standard PHP
installation. For my distribution, it is even possible to add extensions
using packages. However, if you want the latest version, extension for
which no packages exists, or some other option which does not come with
the package, you have to compile PHP yourself.

Installing PHP using your package manager shouldn't preclude you from
compiling additional modules yourself.

My main development machine has PHP installed via Mandriva's URPMI tool,
but I've compiled the pdo and pdo_pgsql extensions myself.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
[OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 21 days, 13:34.]

demiblog 0.2.0 Released
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/0...emiblog-0.2.0/

But what if I want to add ming or curl or ftp or dom? Could I do the
equivalent of this with yum:

../configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysqli=/
usr/bin/mysql_config --prefix=/usr/local/php521 --with-gd --with-zlib-
dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --
with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf --with-curl --with-dom --
with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql821 --enable-ftp --with-ming

[Jerry Stuckle]

mrbog wrote:

On Jul 12, 5:58 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@t obyinkster.co.u k>
wrote:

>Sjoerd wrote:

>>Installing it from a package gives you a fairly standard PHP
installatio n. For my distribution, it is even possible to add extensions
using packages. However, if you want the latest version, extension for
which no packages exists, or some other option which does not come with
the package, you have to compile PHP yourself.

Installing PHP using your package manager shouldn't preclude you from
compiling additional modules yourself.

My main development machine has PHP installed via Mandriva's URPMI tool,
but I've compiled the pdo and pdo_pgsql extensions myself.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
[OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 21 days, 13:34.]

demiblog 0.2.0 Released
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/0...emiblog-0.2.0/

But what if I want to add ming or curl or ftp or dom? Could I do the
equivalent of this with yum:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysqli=/
usr/bin/mysql_config --prefix=/usr/local/php521 --with-gd --with-zlib-
dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --
with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf --with-curl --with-dom --
with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql821 --enable-ftp --with-ming

Just do ./configure --help filename

Capture the output to a file - there are a LOT of options! :-)

That will give you all of the options for configuring PHP. Note you'll
have to add the appropriate directories where necessary.

--
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[mrbog]

On Jul 12, 5:36 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

mrbog wrote:

On Jul 12, 5:58 am, Toby A Inkster <usenet200...@t obyinkster.co.u k>
wrote:

Sjoerd wrote:
Installing it from a package gives you a fairly standard PHP
installation . For my distribution, it is even possible to add extensions
using packages. However, if you want the latest version, extension for
which no packages exists, or some other option which does not come with
the package, you have to compile PHP yourself.
Installing PHP using your package manager shouldn't preclude you from
compiling additional modules yourself.

My main development machine has PHP installed via Mandriva's URPMI tool,
but I've compiled the pdo and pdo_pgsql extensions myself.

--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
[OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 21 days, 13:34.]

demiblog 0.2.0 Released
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/0...emiblog-0.2.0/

But what if I want to add ming or curl or ftp or dom? Could I do the
equivalent of this with yum:

./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysqli=/
usr/bin/mysql_config --prefix=/usr/local/php521 --with-gd --with-zlib-
dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --
with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf --with-curl --with-dom --
with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql821 --enable-ftp --with-ming

Just do ./configure --help filename

Capture the output to a file - there are a LOT of options! :-)

That will give you all of the options for configuring PHP. Note you'll
have to add the appropriate directories where necessary.

--

I think you should read the rest of the thread. Maybe your local
newserver dropped it.

[Jerry Stuckle]

mrbog wrote:

On Jul 12, 5:36 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

>>But what if I want to add ming or curl or ftp or dom? Could I do the
equivalent of this with yum:
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysqli=/
usr/bin/mysql_config --prefix=/usr/local/php521 --with-gd --with-zlib-
dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --
with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf --with-curl --with-dom --
with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql821 --enable-ftp --with-ming

Just do ./configure --help filename

Capture the output to a file - there are a LOT of options! :-)

That will give you all of the options for configuring PHP. Note you'll
have to add the appropriate directories where necessary.

--

I think you should read the rest of the thread. Maybe your local
newserver dropped it.

I read the thread. And you're asking a question you can very well
answer yourself.

All you're doing is arguing to try to win a point. You want to compile
it yourself, do so. You want to use an rpm? Do so.

But when someone gives you an answer, don't keep responding with "What
if's". If they were important you should have said so in the first place!

--
=============== ===
Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
js*******@attgl obal.net
=============== ===

[mrbog]

On Jul 12, 8:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

mrbog wrote:

On Jul 12, 5:36 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

>But what if I want to add ming or curl or ftp or dom? Could I do the
equivalent of this with yum:
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysqli=/
usr/bin/mysql_config --prefix=/usr/local/php521 --with-gd --with-zlib-
dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/lib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --
with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf --with-curl --with-dom --
with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql821 --enable-ftp --with-ming
Just do ./configure --help filename

Capture the output to a file - there are a LOT of options! :-)

That will give you all of the options for configuring PHP. Note you'll
have to add the appropriate directories where necessary.

--

I think you should read the rest of the thread. Maybe your local
newserver dropped it.

I read the thread. And you're asking a question you can very well
answer yourself.

All you're doing is arguing to try to win a point. You want to compile
it yourself, do so. You want to use an rpm? Do so.

But when someone gives you an answer, don't keep responding with "What
if's". If they were important you should have said so in the first place!

Please tell me that Jerry Stuckle is your real name so that I can
never hire you.

Oh my god you train people. oh no.

[Michael Fesser]

..oO(mrbog)

>Please tell me that Jerry Stuckle is your real name so that I can
never hire you.

Oh my god you train people. oh no.

What's your problem? You want a special configuration - then configure
and compile PHP yourself. No package manager can do that for you!

If you don't know how to do it - ask someone. But don't offend them!

Micha