On Mac OS X, to build the zlib.so shared module, I can run PHP's main
"configure" script with the "--with-zlib=shared,[DIR]" argument and
then run "make build-modules".
Most of what PHP's main configure script does is irrelevant to
building just one extension, and for most extensions, I can
PHP 5.3.0's NEWS file says:
- Moved extensions to PECL (Derick, Lukas, Pierre, Scott):
. ext/dbase
. ext/fbsql
. ext/fdf
. ext/ncurses
. ext/mhash (BC layer is now entirely within ext/hash)
. ext/ming
. ext/msql
. ext/sybase (not maintained anymore, sybase_ct has to be used
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