On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:35:26PM +0000, Colin J. Raven wrote:
> > Is this a common experience? I can't believe I'm the only individual
> who
> > has come to this rather unremarkable conclusion.....or have I fallen
> > into a trap yet to reveal itself by jumping outside of the pkgsrc
> tree?

FWIW, I haven't had any problems building php from pkgsrc (on i386 and
alpha). The problem you had with pkgsrc sounds like it was due to
either temporary network problems causing the transfer to abort before
it completed, or an old pkgsrc trying to download the old version
which may not be available anymore (or it may have been moved to a
different location on php.net...)

> Time *has* told one story anyway. lib4php.so...it didn't build with php
> and seemingly this file is platform specific, since a version which
> works on my x86_FreeBSD box (same php version) won't work on the Qube2.
> When I went to edit httpd.conf I looked around for the file and it
> wasn't on my system, it was just an idea to try a file by the same name
> from another box in the BSD family.

Hmm, I forget what lib4php.so does... I seem to have a two-year-old
version of it lying around on my system in the /usr/pkg/lib/httpd
directory, but it's unused (I moved it to a different directory,
restarted apache, and php still works fine). The current version of
the php4 module for Apache is named mod_php4.so on my system.

But in any case, if you can't get it to work, I'd recommend updating
your pkgsrc and try it again.
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