php [re]compile help - sessions

Colin J. Raven colin at kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl
Sun Feb 13 13:21:20 GMT 2005


I know this isn't FreeBSD but perhaps someone knows the way to get this 
accomplsihed (relatively) painlessly.

I have just discovered that php4.3.10 *seems* not to be compiled with 
session support. php4-extensions *is* installed however, and I note in the 
Makefile the option WITH_SESSION is set to "yes".

In an adventurous mood I decided to de - and reinstall php4-extensions, 
only to be met with a stop error preceded by this:

checking for magic files in default path... not found
configure: error: Please reinstall the libmagic distribution

I don't know what magic files are. In the Makefile IMAGICK is the only 
reference I can find to magic...and support for that is set to "off"

The objective is to enable session management, and it seems an 
excessively convoluted path to follow in order to get that accomplished.

In a word...."Help!!"

Regards & TIA,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One
Sun Feb 13 14:19:00 CET 2005
2:19PM  up 1 day, 19:34, 9 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00


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