php compile options

[Kevin Kinsey]

Vizion wrote:

>On Friday 09 September 2005 11:13,  the author Kevin Kinsey contributed to the 
>dialogue on-
> Re: php compile options: 
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>>Vizion wrote:
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>I do wish thiss kind of info was documented, for every port  in 
>Port_Install.readme or something similar- I have spent ages trying to get to 
>bottom of how to deal with this!
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AFAIK, it is documented; see ports(7).

>Different ports require different knowledge as to how they should be 
>installed!
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`cd /usr/ports/category/fooport && sudo make install clean`
works in the general case for every port in the tree* (assuming
in this exact case, that you've already installed and configured
"sudo", and the directory /usr/ports/category/fooport exists and
contains a port skelton, of course).  Otherwise do it as root without
calling sudo.  The system does the work, and, in the general sense,
no particular expertise is required.

>Ah well -- live and learn I gues -- but once someone has learnt can we not 
>have a siomple means of passing the learning on without wasting the time of 
>every learner!!
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Ah, yes.  "I am Locutus of Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is 
futile."
But it only works that way in Star Trek ;-)  Real Life is more like Will 
Rogers:
"There are two ways of getting smarter.  One is reading, and the other is
hanging around with smarter people."

Between 'RTFM' and hanging around this list, I'm doing both :-D

Kevin Kinsey

* Occasionally a port is marked as "broken".  Occasionally one is broken,
and nobody else knows about it --- yet.  Both cases would be exceptions.