Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/17/08 1:05 PM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > Tom Worster wrote: > >> i'm certainly not smart enough to know what might be a better way to design >> ports like php. but one thing seems odd to me. i ended up with dozens of >> ports installed that appeared to use nothing but the same php-5.2.8.ta

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tom Worster wrote: i'm certainly not smart enough to know what might be a better way to design ports like php. but one thing seems odd to me. i ended up with dozens of ports installed that appeared to use nothing but the same php-5.2.8.tar.bz2 distfile. relative to what i'm used to with php (i.e

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:25:02 -0500 Tom Worster wrote: If you're maintaining your own workstation, that might be an educational experience. If you're maintaining servers, that could cause an outage while you try to remember what your edits were. one has to remember the port's c

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/17/08 10:34 AM, "Paul Schmehl" wrote: > --On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 08:18:47 +0100 Mel > wrote: >> >> ... >> Though a lot of things can be handled by: >> 1) environment variables (temporary) >> 2) /etc/make.conf (permanent) >> 3) Makefile.local (permanent, inclusion is at bsd.port.pr

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 08:18:47 +0100 Mel wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 04:33:51 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand wrote: > One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a > client needed JPEG support. > > At the

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 05:16:34 Tom Worster wrote: > On 12/16/08 8:33 PM, "Steve Bertrand" wrote: > > One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a > > client needed JPEG support. > > > > At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. > > > > You make a couple

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 04:33:51 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand > > wrote: > > One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a > > client needed JPEG support. > > > > At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. > >

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 16, 2008 10:09:03 PM -0600 Tom Worster wrote: On 12/16/08 8:10 PM, "Amitabh Kant" wrote: install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of options for php5. thanks for the pointer. i think i found everything i needed in there. i'm not sure how i feel about

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/16/08 8:33 PM, "Steve Bertrand" wrote: > One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a > client needed JPEG support. > > At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. > > You make a couple of valuable points however. It would be easier if the > OP's demands

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/16/08 8:10 PM, "Amitabh Kant" wrote: > install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of > options for php5. thanks for the pointer. i think i found everything i needed in there. i'm not sure how i feel about having 55 more ports installed than i would have if i'd install

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand wrote: One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a client needed JPEG support. At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. You should *never* need to edit a Makefile in a port. (Well, extremely rarel

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On December 16, 2008 7:33:31 PM -0600 Steve Bertrand > wrote: >> >> One of the reasons I've had to edit Makefile manually was because a >> client needed JPEG support. >> >> At the time, `make config' didn't provide that option. >> > > You should *never* need to edit a Make

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brett Davidson wrote: > Steve Bertrand wrote: >> Brett Davidson wrote: >>> Run make config on the php port to see if any configuration options you >>> need are mentioned there. >>> I normally utlise the php-extensions port - run make config in there for >>> options. >>> >> >> One of the reaso

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Brett Davidson
Steve Bertrand wrote: Brett Davidson wrote: Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt -

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Amitabh Kant
install the options from lang/php5-extensions . Gives you tons of options for php5. Amitabh On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Tom Worster wrote: > is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to > install php5? > > i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Brett Davidson wrote: > >> Tom Worster wrote: >> >>> is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to >>> install php5? >>> >>> i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for >>> all >>> the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --ena

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Brett Davidson
Tom Worster wrote: is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to install php5? i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on and on

Re: lang/php5 port

2008-12-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Tom Worster wrote: > is there any documentation or a helpful website for how to use ports to > install php5? > > i'm used to compiling it with a pretty long configuration command for all > the optional bits i need, e.g. --with-dom --with-dom-xslt --enable-dom > --with-pear --with-gd etc. etc. on a

Re: lang/php5 port present no options within sysinstall

2007-07-18 Thread Balin Hansen
I figured out that doing "make config" in /usr/ports/lang/php5 would bring up the screen the handbook was referring to. I'm guessing perhaps that somehow sysinstall sets that configuration for me automatically. eg: when I install apache web server I would assume that sysinstally would set the opti

Re: lang/php5 port present no options within sysinstall

2007-07-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Balin Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to your handbook under the Apache HTTP Server section sysinstall > is supposed to present me with an OPTIONS menu when I try to install > lang/php5 but it never has and I've been pulling my hair out > trying reinstall from scratch, etc. I noti