On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:30:55PM -0800, jennyw wrote: > I've run into some problems with php4 and it's been suggested I recompile > php4. The problem is ... I've never done this before, and reading the > directions is leaving me with a few questions. First, am I getting the right > files? I typed "apt-get source php4" and then found the files in /etc/apt. > > The instructions said to run configure in the php4 source directory which I > did (to compile the dynamic module). When this is done, the script says that > it's the CGI version ... I don't think this is what I want ... What I want > is to be able to use mod_php4, like what I have currently (except that the > current install has a few issues, hence the recompile: e.g. it says that > squirrel mail is redefining functions when it's not).
as with any autoconf-generated configure script, you can always run ./configure --help to get a list of all available configure options. Among these, you'll find --with-apxs and --prefix, etc. and a whole bunch of --with-* or --enable-* options, some of which might apply here. To build the dynamically loadable apache module (DSO), you probably need at least something like ./configure --with-apxs (or "./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs", if apxs should not be found for some reason) plus some other --with-* options (e.g. --with-mysql). Also, the --prefix[=DIR] option might come in handy to get "make install" to put the stuff in the right directories. For the purpose at hand, though, it might suffice to manually copy the libphp4.so file to /usr/lib/apache/1.3/, the rest should already have been setup correctly upon installation of the original php4 deb-package. The INSTALL document that comes with php includes some more details, in particular the section VERBOSE INSTALL, subsections 2a and 4a. You probably also need to get the apache-dev package, as this includes the apxs tool. Along similar lines, always check whether there is some developer package, in case you find something is missing when trying to build things from sources (this might happen for some of the other --with-* options...). As usual, http://packages.debain.org/ is your friend, if you need to locate which package a specific file is contained in. Also see http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/php4.html for the list of php add-on modules that are built into the regular deb-package. If you need the associated funtionalities, you might (or might not) need to specify the appropriate --with-* or --enable-* option to configure, depending on the defaults in effect (see the output of --help). I'm not a PHP expert (personally prefer mod_perl), so I can't tell you any details on which options you most probably want, and how to get those working properly -- I assume there is some PHP list to post specific questions to... Good luck -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing ag www.science-computing.de -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
