PHP5 install error on FreeBSD 7.0

[Mel]

On Saturday 12 April 2008 21:29:18 Joseph Simmons wrote:
> cougar# pwd
> /usr/ports/www/apache22/work/httpd-2.2.6
> cougar# make -n install-htdocs
> echo Installing HTML documents ;
> /usr/ports/www/apache22/work/httpd-2.2.6/build/mkdir.sh
> /usr/local/www/apache22/data ;  test -d
> /usr/ports/www/apache22/work/httpd-2.2.6/docs/docroot && (cd
> /usr/ports/www/apache22/work/httpd-2.2.6/docs/docroot && cp -rp
> index.html ) &&  ( [ ! -f /usr/local/www/apache22/data/index.html ] &&
> cp -p /index.html /usr/local/www/apache22/data/index.html)

Apparently they fixed that in 2.2.8, because my version ends in ||true which 
makes any failure not fatal.
Part of the problem is that htdocsdir is not set, so cp -p /index.html fails, 
even though config.log shows the value, it's not translated to the Makefile.

Hmm, the quick fix would be to run:
cd /usr/ports/www/apache22/work/httpd-2.2.6 && make -k install

The longer but probably better fix is to update your ports tree, using csup or 
portsnap. In that case the handbook is your friend:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

One reason it is the better fix, is that 2.2.8 fixes a few security issues:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.2.8

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.