[WBEL-users] Eeedjits guide to recompiling PHP required please!

[Greg Knaddison]

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Cheers,
Greg


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:22:09 -0500, iron monkey <quan.lo@gmail.com> wrote:
> You may want to consider going the php-odbc route?
> 
> php-odbc is already built into WBEL.
> 
> Of course that is probably going to lead you into the unixODBC stuff,
> but it's an alternative to rebuilding the world...
> 
> If you chose to rebuild the world, One option may be to create your
> own PHP RPM's from th e WBEL php SRPM.  It'd be a little tricky, but I
> believe that with all appropriate *-devel-* RPMs you should be able to
> roll your down.  IIRC, WBEL is self-hosting, so you can rebuild SRPMS.
> 
> You'd have to then manually rebuild the PHP stuff yourself anytime an
> update came through...  So YMMV...
> 
> by going the roll your own route, here's another alternative...see if
> you can build freetds as a php loadable module rather than statically
> linking it in to the main php module...  If you can build it that way,
> then you should create a separate RPM just like php-odbc, php-mysql,
> etc...  You'd have to learn and modify the php.spec file and add a new
> region for php-freetds by using the php-odbc sections as an example.
> 
> Then the whole thing would be redistributable as well...  *wink*
> 
> If you did that, then you'd still be able to get the RPM updates for
> WBEL from yum...
> 
> I think anyways...  Never tried this completely.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:10:35 +0100, Nigel Kendrick
> 
> 
> <nigel.kendrick@petdoctors.co.uk > wrote:
> > Gulp, I'm trying my first ever major recompile - and it's PHP to add
> > freetds support so we can run database queries on an MS-SQL hosted
> > database using Agata (www.agata.org.br )
> >
> > Ok, I've downloaded the PHP source, I have the original configure
> > options via phpinfo() so do I now start downloading every darn package
> > source needed to recompile or is there a simpler way!?
> >
> > Any pointers gratefully received before my boss throws Crystal Reports
> > at me!
> >
> > Oh, and I'm also looking at these packages - any comments from existing
> > users would be great - essentially I want to setup some SQL reporting so
> > that Managers can click a button on our Intranet and get the data they
> > want:
> >
> > http://phpreports.sourceforge.net/ 
> >
> > http://reportman.sourceforge.net/ 
> >
> > http://phpcodegenie.sourceforge.net/ 
> >
> > I'm smart, but staring up at the learning curve in front of me as it
> > crashes through the ceiling so be gentle!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Nigel Kendrick
> >
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