Re: mail/roundcube fails for PEAR

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Adrian Portelli wrote:

> This is actually a requirement of PEAR, not PHP:
>
> [adrianp /usr/pkgsrc/lang/pear ]$ cat MESSAGE
> ===========================================================================
> $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1.1.1 2007/05/05 21:21:45 adrianp Exp $
>
> In order to use PEAR packages you may want to alter the default
> include_path of PHP to include the PEAR installation directory where the
> packages are located.  To do this you need to edit the include_path
> directive in your php.ini file:
>
>        ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}/php.ini
>
> Change the "include_path" directive to read as follows:
>
>        include_path = ".:${PREFIX}/lib/php"
>
> ===========================================================================
> [adrianp /usr/pkgsrc/lang/pear ]$
>
> In pkgsrc land we tend not to modify installed configuration files.  In this 
> case php.ini is already installed from the php package so the pear package 
> just spits out this message.

        Actually we do tend to modify installed config to match the
        paths used by pkgsrc :)

        I think this is one case where it makes sense to have the default
        php.ini include the pear path. What do others feel?

--
                David/absolute       -- www.NetBSD.org: No hype required --