Re: Cofiguring or recopiling PHP package
You should first establish how the debian package is configured. It
might have all the configuration options you want and more.
Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:35:23AM +1000, Bruce Ward wrote:
> > New to Debian (and linux) and trying to install an open source
system built
> > on PHP, Apache and PostgreSQL. The syetm requires a particular
> > configiguration of PHP and comes with a suggested configuration
script for
> > use prior to compiling PHP. That is a script something like:
> >
> > ./configure -- with php -- with many more with statements
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > I have installed Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL for the Debian package
system,
> > but have not been able to work out where I can run the config
script within
> > the debian file system.
> >
> > I also tried downloading a generic PHP package from the PHP world,
but that
> > fails about halfway through the configiration process, with a
message like:
> >
> > checking for OpenSSL support... yes
> > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL's <evp.h>
>
>
> In almost all cases, when header files are not found, you need a
*-dev
> debian package. Those provide the stuff required for development
> (building a package from source is 'development' in that sense, even
if
> you don't code yourself). So, in this particular case, it's likely
you
> have not installed the package libssl-dev.
> Once it's installed, the configuration process should normally be
able
> to locate the relevant header files itself -- if not, you'd typically
> have to specify an additional argument to configure, telling it where
> to look (i.e. /usr/include/openssl/, in this case).
>
> I don't know how 'particular' that PHP configuration really needs to
> be, but before I would build PHP from source, I'd check twice whether
> the given debian packages are not sufficient (you'd lose the
advantages
> of debian package management, etc., otherwise).
> Same thing holds here: you'll most likely need php4-dev, to build any
> other software '--with php' ...
>
> We might provide more details, if you let us know what software
you're
> trying to install :)
>
> Good luck,
> Almut
>
>
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