PHP4 in extras?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon May 16 13:21:25 UTC 2005


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 5/16/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>During reviews of my pptp package
>>(https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-May/msg00391.html),
>>a couple of people suggested that I also package up the "pptpconfig" GUI
>>configuration tool for pptp. I'm happy to do this, but it will also
>>require packaging of some dependencies, one of which is version 4 of
>>PHP, because pptpconfig is built using PHP-GTK (http://gtk.php.net/),
>>which is not compatible with PHP5 as shipped in FC4.
> 
> 
> Do you know exactly why its not compatible with the php5 that's going
> to be in fc4?
> Inherent incompatibility with php5 or is this a compile time setting?
> If its a compile time setting issue have you communicated with the
> core php maintainer about whether there is room to negotiate
> compiletime changes before fc4 is released?

I believe it's an inherent incompatibility. I tried building with php5 
from rawhide this morning and it fell over at a PHP version check in 
"configure", the error message being "PHP-GTK requires PHP version 4.3.x".

Paul.




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