PHP on FreeBSD - Compiler Bugs and Option selection

Vizion vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Sat Sep 10 21:48:17 PDT 2005


On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:53,  the author Vizion contributed to the 
dialogue on-
 Re: PHP on FreeBSD - Compiler Bugs and Option selection: 

>On Saturday 10 September 2005 12:49,  the author Vizion contributed to the
>dialogue on-
>
> PHP on FreeBSD - Compiler Bugs and Option selection:
>>Hi ale
>>
>>I just wanted to check you had received OK the two compiler errors that I
>>reported for /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions.
>>
>>The first error was apparently caused by make expecting  libmagic in an
>>incorrect path for FreeBSD 5.3. Once a copy was placed in the correct path
>>compilation resumed.
>
>I meant to say that full credit should be given to
>Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> who made the suggestion to
>copy /usr/src/contrib/file/magic.h to
>/usr/include/magic.h
>and see if it works. Which it did.
>
>>The second error seems also to be caused by an inability to find requisite
>>files for wddx.
>>ext/xml/expat_compat.h
>>ext/xml/php
>>
>>As a result of compiling php5 I began to wonder whether it  would be
>> helpful to users if :
>>drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel     512 May  2 07:06 php5-cli
>>drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel     512 Sep  9 18:00 php5-extensions
>>drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel     512 May 28 10:06 php_doc
>>were more integrated as choices within make for php5.
>>
>>I would personally find it helpful if all the build options for php could
>> be in an editable file for sysadmins to define a repeatable unattended
>> build from all available build options. A closer integration of the
>> subsidiary php5 ports into the php5 make would facilitate this process.
>>
>>I do not not how welcome these proposals might be or how easy it would be
>> to make the changes but would be interested to know what others think.
>>
>>Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> made a very interesting suggestion
>> that he uses on his servers to achieve the above goal. He
>>uses /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf for that purpose but my preference would
>> be to have a method that is particular to php and does not lead to an
>>overloading of /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf.
>>
>>I have copied Norbeto's example below:
>>****************** Quote*******************************
>>-if you want to avoid having to choose by hand what you really
>>-want( or have it preconfigured so all you have to do is press OK, then
>>-use something like /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf which will be read by
>>-portinstall (sysutils/port-maintenance-tools/)
>>-my relevant sections for my servers are:
>>-
>>----
>>-     'php4-*' =- [
>>-         'WITH_APACHE2=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_DEBUG=true',
>>-         'WITH_BCMATH=true',
>>-         'WITH_BZ2=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_CALENDAR=true',
>>-         'WITH_CRACK=true',
>>-         'WITH_CTYPE=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_CURL=true',
>>-         'WITH_DBA=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_DBASE=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_DBX=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_DIO=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_DOMXML=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_EXIF=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_FILEINFO=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_FILEPRO=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_FRIBIDI=true',
>>-         'WITH_FTP=true',
>>-         'WITH_GD=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_GETTEXT=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_GMP=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_ICONV=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_IMAGICK=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_IMAP=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_INTERBASE=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_LDAP=true',
>>-         'WITH_MBSTRING=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_MCAL=true',
>>-         'WITH_MCRYPT=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_MCVE=true',
>>-         'WITH_MHASH=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_MING=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_MNOGOSEARCH=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_MSSQL=true',
>>-         'WITH_MYSQL=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_NCURSES=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_ODBC=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_OPENSSL=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_ORACLE=true',
>>-         'WITH_OVERLOAD=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_PANDA=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_PCNTL=true',
>>-         'WITH_PCRE=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_PDF=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_PGSQL=true',
>>-         'WITH_POSIX=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_PSPELL=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_READLINE=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_RECODE=true',
>>-         'WITH_SESSION=true',
>>-         'WITH_SHMOP=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_SNMP=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_SOCKETS=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_SYBASE_CT=true',
>>-         'WITH_SYSVMSG=true',
>>-         'WITH_SYSVSEM=true',
>>-         'WITH_SYSVSHM=true',
>>-         'WITH_TOKENIZER=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_WDDX=true',
>>-         'WITH_XML=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_XMLRPC=true',
>>-         'WITH_XSLT=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_YAZ=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_YP=true',
>>-         'WITH_ZIP=true',
>>-         'WITH_ZLIB=true',
>>-         ],
>>-     'php4-dba-*' =- [
>>-         'WITH_CDB=true',
>>-         'WITH_DB4=true',
>>-         'WITH_GDBM=true',
>>-         'WITH_INIFILE=true',
>>-         'WITH_FLATFILE=true',
>>-         ],
>>-     'php4-gd-*' =- [
>>-         'WITH_T1LIB=true',
>>-         'WITH_TRUETYPE=true',
>>-         'WITHOUT_JIS=true',
>>-         'WITH_LZW=true',
>>-         ],
>>-     'php4-mbstring-*' =- [
>>-         'WITH_REGEX=true',
>>-         ],
>>*************End Quote***************************
>>
>>I also wonder why the Makefile, by default, uses the --disable-all option
>> in the Makefile with no option to remove it.

I have now heard from uasers at the smf forum that some php programmes read 
the settings which are from phpinfo(). If --disable-all option is set then 
this is taken as a flag that php does not have sessions enabled even when it 
may have been enabled at a later stage of the build. This problem has 
accounted for some errors on php programs. Smf fails on php5 on freebsd 5.3 & 
5.4. When --disable-all option is removed one freebsd user reported that the 
bug phpbb then ran fine. I do not know whether the problem applies to all 
configs - but it does seem to be there. 

So I really fo think something needs to be done about this. My question is 
would simply removing it from the make file cause build problems as things 
now stand.
>>
>>I would be interested in what others have to say and would like to place on
>>record my appreciation for all your work in maintaining the ports.
>>
>>david

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