Mark Hensler — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:14:25 +0000

Try make clean and rm config.cache. I think you only need to rm config.cache when your recompiling after updating a dependency or something. But don't quote me on that.

You can read all about those directives here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.configure.php

--enable-force-cgi-redirect
Enable the security check for internal server redirects. You should use this if you are running the CGI version with Apache.

--enable-memory-limit
Compile with memory limit support.

enable-versioning
Export only required symbols. See INSTALL for more information.

The others aren't on that page. I don't know what they do.

bc is a command line calculator for Unix (you can use it to do your algebra homework as it can use variables ). Though, I can't imagine that PHP would need to interface with a calculator.

nike_guy_man — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:59:02 +0000

Well I decided on:
Mcrypt
MySQL
zLib
Bz2
obdc
XML
openSSL
sockets
GD
sessions

I ran phpinfo() on my 4.2.2 installation (which didn't have mcrypt -- which was what I really wanted) and got the ./configure for my 4.2.2 installation... and I dont even have most of the things installed... like imap -- NOTE: I installed PHP when I installed RH 8.0, so I didn't run ./configure
If you could, explain these to me:

--enable-calendar
--enable-dio
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
--enable-memory-limit
--enable-bcmath
--enable-shmop
--enable-versioning

If I read the docs right, --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs is building it as a module of apache, right? well that failed when I had it as an option... yet I do have Apache 2
I tried configuring about 4000 times... some configured, but wouldn't make
I'll try again when I'm awake...

Mark Hensler — Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:25:20 +0000

I think I read somewhere that 4.3 was to be the last of the version 4 series. Just a bug fix release.

I don't see any beta 5 releases, but I do see that the CVS version has been labled version 5. (http://snaps.php.net/)

I'm hoping that version 5 will be stamped 'stable with Apache 2'.

hostdog — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:10:05 +0000

correct also did you see they have the beta of 5.0 out now. Wonder how long until a bug free version is here

Mark Hensler — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:51:56 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by hostdog
The new release of php has gd installed in it already

The latest release (4.3.0) has the GD library bundled with it. You still have to compile with --with-gd; you just don't have to specify a path.

hostdog — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 04:01:00 +0000

The new release of php has gd installed in it already,
I would do zend optimizer also.
postgre is not commonly needed. I would wait on that unless you require it.

Abhishek Reddy — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 03:36:56 +0000

The GD library allows you to manipulate images.

From what I hear about the Zend Optimizer, it's worth it, but I haven't personal experience with it.

nike_guy_man — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:09:41 +0000

What is GD?
How about the Zend Optimizer?? I'm thinking of installing it... is it worth it?