best method to recompile php for fc3
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Mar 23 14:52:33 UTC 2005
Dale Sykora wrote:
> I recently had to recompile php on FC3 to accomodate oracle instant
> client libraries. I downloaded the source from php.net, configured it
> with the same options as shown by phpinfo() from the original FC# php
> package. I then added the oracle option. I ended up removing a few
> options (imap, etc) so it would work without error. I would rather have
> installed the php srpm and recompile from that so that the end result
> is very close to the original rpm. However, I do not know the steps
> involved and had trouble googling for them. Does anyone have
> instructions or a howto for making minor changes to files from a source
> rpm and recreating a new rpm.
Good intro to RPM-building:
http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/
If you install the PHP SRPM and look at the spec file, you'll see that
it contains what amounts to a set of instructions for building the
package. Just tweak the instructions as you need them and then rebuild.
Paul.
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