Greetings. We recently moved one of our web servers from an SL 3 system to an SL 5.1 system (x86_64). We had to move some "legacy" applications that were written in PHP and that generate reports in PDF format.
It appears that pdflib (or maybe pdflib "lite") is the tool that's being used to generate the PDF. We're trying to make these applications work on the new system, and I have to say it's a can of worms. It appears that one has to build PHP from source in order to include the pdflib capability in PHP. To do that we had to download a newer version of m4 that was, for some reason, in the SL 5.1 source directory but not in the binary distribution. I'm not happy with much of anything in the previous paragraph, as the customized packages become maintenance headaches. Nevertheless, we did get PHP to build, and it passed all but three of the 3000+ tests. Now we're having trouble getting Apache to see and use the new version of PHP. The "info.php" file keeps finding the canonical SL version of PHP, unless we delete PHP (rpm -e php), in which case info.php doesn't find anything. I suppose that if we remove some more of the standard SL PHP packages we might eventually come into equilibrium here, but I keep thinking there must be a better way If you've got any cleaner way to deal with PHP/PDF, will you please let me know ASAP? Thanks. - Mike -- Michael Hannon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics 530.752.4966 University of California 530.752.4717 FAX Davis, CA 95616-8677