Re: PHP version dependency problems, was need help with php.

2010-10-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:31:01AM -, John Levine wrote:
  compiled correctly.  Then, still nothing.  Typing php at a
  root prompt outputs these warnings.  What's strange is that I
  _thought_ I had mysql set up correctly.  
 
 PHP has a bunch of version dependencies on other ports that the guy
 who maintains the PHP port refuses to fix or even to document.  I sent
 in two fixes for a pcre dependency, one of which was a one-line change
 to the makefile to use the bundled pcre, the other of which was a
 different one-line change to note the version depenency on the
 separate pcre port.  He rejected them both, insisting that everyone
 always keeps all their ports current.  That's absurd, but there's not
 much to be done.
 
 The failures were odd PHP bugs in packages like mediawiki that used
 to work just fine.
 
 So if you've built PHP on a system that's not freshly installed, I'd
 suggest one of these to bring all the ports on which it depends up to
 date.
 
 # portupgrade -R php\*
 # portmaster php\*
 
 R's,
 John


Still stumped.  I upgraded via portmaster; I installed the
test.php.  The APACHE  flag is on in the lang/php5 Makefile.
Nada.  I just rebuilt the suite with the DEBUG ON; how is this
supposed to help?

gary



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Re: PHP version dependency problems, was need help with php.

2010-10-19 Thread John Levine
   compiled correctly.  Then, still nothing.  Typing php at a
   root prompt outputs these warnings.  What's strange is that I
   _thought_ I had mysql set up correctly.  

PHP has a bunch of version dependencies on other ports that the guy
who maintains the PHP port refuses to fix or even to document.  I sent
in two fixes for a pcre dependency, one of which was a one-line change
to the makefile to use the bundled pcre, the other of which was a
different one-line change to note the version depenency on the
separate pcre port.  He rejected them both, insisting that everyone
always keeps all their ports current.  That's absurd, but there's not
much to be done.

The failures were odd PHP bugs in packages like mediawiki that used
to work just fine.

So if you've built PHP on a system that's not freshly installed, I'd
suggest one of these to bring all the ports on which it depends up to
date.

# portupgrade -R php\*
# portmaster php\*

R's,
John
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