Detailed explanation of PHP's ./configure

[Swartz]

Hi all.

I'm building a development webserver (redhat-based). I'm trying to compile
PHP (v4.3.4 if anyone cares) with all the features I might require in the
near future. I've ran into a
problem with trying to understand what all those ./configure options do.
Some of them are fairly straight forward and need no explanation at all, but
others are rather mysterious.

For example, --enable-magic-quotes . What are the magic quotes? The PHP
manual doesn't help - "PHP4: Enable magic quotes by default".
Or --with-iconv, whats iconv?

After doing a bit of searching on google I figured what the above two are.

However, I find it's a bit time consuming to do this for each configure
option I find confusing. Is there a resource that provides a detailed
description of all/most PHP configure options?

Thanks in advance.

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Swartz

[CountScubula]

"Swartz" <sw****@inbox.ru> wrote in message news:<vu************@corp.supernews.com>...

Hi all.

I'm building a development webserver (redhat-based). I'm trying to compile
PHP (v4.3.4 if anyone cares) with all the features I might require in the
near future. I've ran into a
problem with trying to understand what all those ./configure options do.
Some of them are fairly straight forward and need no explanation at all, but
others are rather mysterious.

For example, --enable-magic-quotes . What are the magic quotes? The PHP
manual doesn't help - "PHP4: Enable magic quotes by default".
Or --with-iconv, whats iconv?

After doing a bit of searching on google I figured what the above two are.

However, I find it's a bit time consuming to do this for each configure
option I find confusing. Is there a resource that provides a detailed
description of all/most PHP configure options?

Thanks in advance.

That you may require? then compile them all in, or if you are
compiling the thr production box itself, then don't worry about it,
when you need it, recompile.

Mike Bradley
http://gzen.myhq.info -- free online php tools

[Swartz]

"CountScubula" wrote ...

I'm building a development webserver (redhat-based). I'm trying to compile PHP (v4.3.4 if anyone cares) with all the features I might require in the near future.

That you may require? then compile them all in, or if you are
compiling the thr production box itself, then don't worry about it,
when you need it, recompile.

Well, I see your point. However I'd like to understand what some of the
options are.
Just to add to the problem, I'm compiling PHP as a static module for Apache,
so everytime I want to recompile PHP I'd also have to recompile Apache,
etc...

Posting here, I thought, someone must've ran into the same problem I face
now and decided to create a resource for all others like him/her. I guess
not...

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Swartz