FreeBSD 5.2.1 port dependencies (PHP/PEAR)

[Philip Murray]

Comrade Burnout wrote:

> i recently upgraded some machines to FreeBSD 5.2.1-STABLE, and trying 
> to install the PEAR objects (PHP stuff).
>
> I've looked through the INDEX file in my local ports collection, and 
> the PEAR tree is looking for:
>
> php4-4.3.4
> whereas mod_php4 and any of the other (non-PEAR ) PHP ports are 
> looking for:
>
> mod_php4-4.3.4,1
>
PEAR needs a command line PHP binary to be able to run. The mod_php4 
package only installs an Apache module and not the commandline PHP binary.
 Thus PEAR would be unuseable. The upside, is that the php4 package 
includes the command line binary, an Apache module and the CGI executable.

Cheers

Philip