The lang/php4 port... [was Re: General Ports question...]

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:29:15PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> Glenn Sieb said the following on 10/5/2004 7:21 PM:
> 
> >Just a suggestion: It would be *really* nice to have a file in a port 
> >directory that has all the options you can set on the make line (or in 
> >pkgtools.conf) ... yes I know you can grep through Makefile--but it 
> >would still be nice to have a file with all of the options and what 
> >they mean... :)
> >
> >*going back to fixing the php4 install again*
> 
> Ok. I'm getting frustrated.
> 
> In pkgtools.conf I have:
> 
>        'lang/php4' => 'WITH_APACHE=YES WITH_FASTCGI=YES WITH_REDIRECT=YES',
>        'lang/php4-extensions' => 'BATCH=YES WITH_GD=YES WITH_ZLIB=YES 
> WITH_BZIP
> 2=YES WITH_MCRYPT=YES WITH_MHASH=YES WITH_PDFLIB=YES WITH_MYSQL=YES 
> WITH_POSTGRE
> SQL=YES WITH_XML=YES WITH_XMLRPC=YES WITH_XSLT=YES WITH_WDDX=YES 
> WITH_DOMXML=YES
> WITH_FTP=YES WITH_CURL=YES WITH_GETTEXT=YES WITH_ICONV=YES 
> WITH_PSPELL=YES WITH
> _MIME=YES WITH_MBSTRING=YES WITH_BCMATH=YES WITH_HYPERWAVE=YES 
> WITH_MING=YES WIT
> H_MCAL=YES WITH_SOCKETS=YES WITH_ZIP=YES WITH_DOMXSLT=YES WITH_CTYPE=YES 
> WITH_DO
> MXML=YES WITH_CALENDAR=YES WITH_SESSION=YES WITH_PCRE=YES WITH_POSIX=YES 
> WITH_TO
> KENIZER=YES',
> 
> I have used portinstall to install lang/php4-extensions. It appeared to 
> do the right thing, given those options above.
> 
> I then used portupgrade to upgrade lang/php4.
> 
> See all those options I installed with php4-extensions? Well they don't 
> get picked up by lang/php4--even though php4-extensions is installed.
> 
> What am I doing wrong? I'm gathering it's just something little and 
> stupid I'm missing. But, until then...*Beats Head Against Wall*

php4-extensions exists purly as a lazy way to do an initial selection of
php extenstions.  After the first install you just update the individual
ports directly.  The best thing to do with the php#-extensions ports is
forget they exist.

-- Brooks

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