Tony Maro wrote: > Who's blaming you for anything? Sounds like you perhaps feel guilty > about something and I don't NEED to blame you for anything if this is > the way you respond. ;-)
*shrug* Guilty? No. Responsible? Yes. Irritated when people unload their frustration on me? Yes. > Must you know why it took me like 120 times to > compile? Well I can't quite remember the groggy caffeine induced > details, but I'll try. First keep in mind I installed RPM's for > everything INCLUDING the PHP module and then uninstalled the PHP module > when I realized it didn't like the newer PHP. The readme's included > with the source didn't cover the required options for configure - or at > least I didn't see them. ./configure --help. That's standard. [ tale of try-and-try-again ] So basically, the installation process for 1.4.2 is far from flawless. Had you asked you'd have been directed to our CVS versions, where most of these things were fixed. Besides that, if you do meet a situation like this, there's appearantly a few ways to deal with this: 1. Experiment (good) then complain to the authors (guess) 2. Experiment (good) then suggest ways for improvement (good, too many people think 1. is a informal way of 2. It isn't.) 3. Ask straight away (good). > Suffice it to say that the instructions I found were less than newbie > friendly. And I've downloaded, configured and built hundreds of apps - > but never one of this magnitude. I always look for the "INSTALL" file > for directions, but I'm used to doing three things "./configure" "make" > and "make install" - never had to specify options except when I compiled > my PHP, and I found a NHF that told me what to put there. Maybe I'm > just too ignorant to use Midgard. (IGNORANT= LACKING IN KNOWLEDGE) Fortunately, there's an easy yet wildly impopular way to fix this: document the process and submit a HOWTO, which we'll *gladly* include in the manual, or suggest ways to improve it, preferably with patches. Welcome to open source. > > Did you explicitly compile PHP against the mysql-supplied libs, or the > > internal ones from PHP? The latter will not work. General problem with PHP. > > Uh... I think I used the internal support. As a matter of fact I'm sure > I did. That's in the INSTALL file of the CVS version. Emile > Thanks for the input and accompanying flame. Geez and I even made an > effort to find and search the archives... ;-) A newbie just can't win! It's got nothing to do with being a newby, or with being ignorant (point about ignorant != dumb duly noted). It's got to do with how to deal with people that are going to help you (and I will). Starting out with "this complex piece of ..." is not likely, in life in general, to make people enthousiastic about helping you. Unless you're complaining about Windows to a Linux crowd, I guess. Emile --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
