thanks for the reply...i'm coming from the world of freebsd and usually there the ports of a brand new release install all work together.
now decided to try out netbsd - mostly because of xen - and using the ports in pkgsrc things aren't as pretty. (i know xen doesn't need php or mysql)
apparently there is no mk.conf in /etc. i can add that. not a problem. but i found a directory under /usr/pkgsrc/lang called just php with a file there called ext.mk which is used when extensions are build. that file references another one called phpversion.mk which appears is the one that determines the actual default version in these 2 lines:
PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT?= 53 PHP_VERSIONS_ACCEPTED?= 5 53i did try PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT?= 54. not very successfully. since the extensions ports were out of date.
the actual php directory itself does not have a Makefile. so nothing can be build from it.
i discovered all this when the all the extensions i need start building with patched versions for php 5.3.10. which by now it's old.
it looks like if i want to use php 5.4.* i'd have to build all of it myself...
anyway... just saying. thanks again for the reply. On 8/29/12 10:34 PM, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
kalin writes:
- ports in pkgsrc are all messed up.
The best place to discuss the pkgsrc system is
pkgsrc-users%netbsd.org@localhost
- i have a default install of netbsd 5.1
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- tried to install a simple apache php mysql set up via the pkgs.
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- it really gets to be a pain. installed php54 bit all the extensions for
- php are build with a Makefile for 5.3. what's the point there?
Did you set PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT in /etc/mk.conf?
Currently, the default version of PHP is 5.3. If you wish to
use 5.4 as the default/standard version on your installation,
you need to add the following to your /etc/mk.conf:
PHP_VERSION_DEFAULT=54
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