Rebuild php: An easier way?

[Japheth Cleaver]

Soo yeah. Ignore the top part of that -- proper instructions bottom-posted. 
That's what I get for writing 3 emails at once :)

-jc


At 11:52 AM 6/22/2004, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
>At 10:47 AM 6/22/2004, Bert Buckley - Uniq Software/Systems wrote:
>
>>I am using FC1. The distributed version of php does not
>>include support for libmcrypt, so I want to rebuild php
>>--with-mcrypt.
>>
>>However, I also need gd, jpeg, mysql, and png. So, in order
>>to rebuild php, I have to download, untar, configure, make and
>>install packages for php, lib png, lib jpeg, mysql, gd, freetype2,
>>at least.  I even have to reinstall apache, since apxs is needed
>>for the php build.
>>
>>Yes, I can do this, but is there an easier way?  These packages
>>all come with FC1, but there is no source, and if I try to
>>configure and make php without these, various errors of the
>>sort 'can't find suchandsuch.h' will occur.
>>
>>By the way, a public thanks to those of you out there who have
>>taken the time to answer other questions in the past, for me
>>and for others. It certainly is appreciated.
>>
>>Am I missing something simple?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Bert
>>Bert Buckley                   Uniq Software/Systems
>
>
>I'd grab the php Source RPM and rebuild from there. In the process, you 
>can view the BuildRequires of the spec file and do a yum install of 
>everything you need. The process I used is below, but here's the command 
>line to install/update everything it thinks it needs. Give it this (on one 
>line), answer yes, and go fix a snack.
>
>yum install bzip2-devel curl-devel db4-devel expat-devel freetype-devel 
>gd-devel gdbm-devel gmp-devel aspell-devel httpd-devel libjpeg-devel 
>libpng-devel pam-devel libstdc++-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel 
>zlib-devel pcre-devel bzip2 perl libtool krb5-devel libc-client-devel 
>cyrus-sasl-devel openldap-devel mysql-devel postgresql-devel 
>unixODBC-devel freetds-devel mhash-devel net-snmp-devel elfutils-devel 
>libxslt-devel libxml2-devel
>
>
>When it's done, you should be able to rebuild using your tweaked php SRPM 
>easily. Here's how I did it to deal with mysql4 problems (since 
>MySQL-shared-compat didn't work for me). Decide if you want to rename the 
>package to something other than "php" though. If you don't edit your yum 
>settings, otherwise your custom-built package will get clobbered the next 
>time an update php rpm comes out.
>
>
>
>1) Make a RPM user to rebuild with
>         useradd rpmbuild; su rpmbuild; cd /home/rpmbuild;
>         echo "%_topdir  /home/rpmbuild/rpm" > .rpmmacros
>         echo "%_tmppath /home/rpmbuild/rpm/tmp" >> .rpmmacros
>         mkdir -p rpm/{SPECS,SOURCES,BUILD,RPMS,SRPMS,tmp}
>
>
>2) Download the latest Source RPM from a mirror (i.e., 
>http://fedora.mirrors.redwire.net/updates/1/SRPMS/php-4.3.6-1.3.src.rpm)
>         rpmbuild --recompile php-4.3.6-1.3.src.rpm
>
>3) 'grep BuildRequires rpm/SPECS/php.spec' and yum "install" anything you 
>don't already have. (above)
>
>4) vi rpm/SPECS/php.spec
>
>         edit configure/spec file as needed
>         optionally rename the package(s) it creates
>
>5) rpmbuild -ba php.spec
>
>6) rpm -i rpm/RPMS/i386/packagenamehere
>
>
>
>HTH,
>
>Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
>cleaver at ixpres.net
>cleaver at rohan.sdsu.edu