# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-28 07:50:48 +0200:
> "Inge Thorin Eids?ther" wrote:
> > I need to rebuild mod_php4 (for Apache2) from the latest sources,
> > because of a bug that (among other things) causes the file_exists
> > function in php 4.2.3 to work incorrectly. The bug has been fixed
> > in the latest sources, but these are (as far as I can tell) not
> > in the FreeBSD ports tree yet.
> >
> > Is there some manual way to do it that does not require me to be
> > an experienced programmer? I tried renaming the source tarball to
> > that of the old one, and build with NO_CHECKSUM=yes
> > (and WITH_APACHE2=yes), but the thing blew up complaining about
> > patches that failed to apply cleanly.
>
> Your main problem is, that the PHP4-dev (cvs snapshot) requires
> libtool 1.4, but there's only 1.3 in ports tree.
That's not actually a problem. Libtool compiles cleanly on FreeBSD
(precisely: I have never had a single problem), so you can just
* download required versions of libtool and other autotools
(automake, autoconf...), and install them in, say, /opt.
* configure, and compile php:
% PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH ./buildconf
% PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH ./configure --with-this --enable-that
i don't use apache-2.0 yet (especially as the php4 developers
themselves say combination of apache-2.0 with php4 is alpha quality
at best), but this has always worked for me building HEAD checkouts
which i need to get decent CLI support.
> There is a php4-developer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], he is a very cooperatively
> person, he runs php4-dev under FreeBSD, maybe he can help you.
Derick Rethans is indeed one of the greatest assets of the php
community.
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