Re: php5 +apache installation workaround
js
Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:15:23 -0800
A month or two ago, I proposed eliminating the ability to use Apple's
Apache and only use MacPorts's Apache. Several people objected to
this, which is why I proposed the compromise in which both are
available.
Some reasons to prefer Apple's are that it gets auto-upgraded by
Software Update, and that you can control it from System Preferences
> Sharing > Personal Web Sharing. With the MacPorts version, you
have to use the terminal for both tasks, something some users are not
comfortable with.
Now I understand the situation, Thank you.
But still I can't use php5 MacPorts' apache...
Could you please tell me the way to use MacPorts' apache with php5
without
manually editing php5's portfile?
I tried:
$ port install php5 +mysql5
# failed. seems variant macosx is implicitly used.(my variants.conf
is empty)
#so I tried the next.
$ port install php5 -macosx +mysql5
configure: error: This c-client library is built with Kerberos
support.
Add --with-kerberos to your configure line. Check config.log
for details.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
I didn't try but I think if I'd use +apache2
because variant apache2 don't have "if { ! [variant_isset macosx] }"
on the portfile.
hi js,
you are correct about the macosx variant being implicitly used, even
though it isnt in the variants.conf file (which seems to me a blatant
contradiction of macports philosophy).
the best solution ive found to this problem is to disable it by
adding the following line to /opt/local/etc/ports/variants.conf:
-macosx
the minus sign does the opposite of the plus so the "macosx" variant
will be disabled unless explicitly specified (as it should be, i
believe).
turning off the macosx variant, however, will leave php apache-less,
so you have to explicitly tell it to use either +apache or +apache2
(either one should work fine now that the macosx variant is out of
the picture).
-emory
ps - thanks for bringing this issue up ... im glad to know im not the
only one to find it so unintuitive.
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