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[PHP4BETA] How-to build RC1 under RedHat From: Dave 'Duke of URL' Weiner (davew <email protected>)
Date: 04/20/00

Compiling PHP 4.0 RC1 from the official source tar file under RedHat and
RedHat derivatives

The following is my experience compiling RC1 under Mandrake 7.0, which is
based on RedHat 6.1. This should work on any recent RedHat or RedHat
derivative, but has not been tested. This may also apply to other systems
using RPM or other packaging methods.

NB: I've erred on the side of caution with the packages listed. Some of
them may be overkill, but I know this particular combination works.

At a minimum, you will need the following packages installed:

apache
apache-devel

If you want to compile in MySQL, you will also need:

MySQL
MySQL-client
MySQL-devel

If you want to compile in gd support:

gd
gd-devel

If the version of gd you have installed is one of the newer version that
support png, you will also need:

libpng
libpng-devel

In general, I've found that for every option you want to add to PHP (zlib,
etc), make sure you not only have that package installed, but also
the -devel package. This seems to be what most people trying to build PHP
on RedHat boxen are missing.

Under RedHat, place the php.ini file in /etc/httpd/conf, and be sure to use
the following options for configure:

--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --prefix=/usr --with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd/
conf

And, for those of you who are curious, here's the complete ./configure
command that I used to build RC1 on Mandrake 7.0 (line breaks added for
readability):

./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs --prefix=/usr --with-gd --with-mysql
--with-zlib --with-dbase --with-filepro --with-ndbm
--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd/conf --with-fdftk=no --disable-debug
--enable-magic-quotes --enable-track-vars --enable-safe-mode
--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin --with-system-regex

The --disable-debug is in there so I can use the Zend optimizer. I hope
this helps other people trying to build on RedHat, and I give permission for
this to be used as part of the PHP documentation, as long as credit is
given.

Dave Weiner 

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