M. Sokolewicz wrote: > Nick Peters wrote: >> Richard Lynch wrote: >> >> >>>Nick Peters wrote: >>> >>>>i currently have a apache and php installed perfectly on my box >>>>(slackware 10). However, i have the need to use mcrypt. I have mcrypt >>>>all compiled and >>>>installed, but how do i add the module to my php install? I have >>>>searched a >>>>few places on the net and i can't figure it out. Thanks in advance. >>> >>>If you compiled from source, go back to your PHP source directory, and >>>do: >>> >>>./config.nice --with-mcrypt >>> >>>This should copy all your old settings, which were stored in >>>'config.nice' from the last time, but tack on --with-mcrypt for you this >>>time. >>> >>>If you installed from an RPM or whatever Slackware uses for package >>>management, then you have just stumbled across the main downfall of >>>packages: Whomever makes the Slackware PHP package thinks you don't need >>>mcrypt and you are stuck with starting over compiling PHP from source to >>>get what you want. Sorry. >>> >>>PS While you are at it, you may want to breeze through the manual and see >>>if there's anything else you for sure want to play with in the next few >>>weeks, and install that too. >>> >>>Buuuuuut, don't go hog-wild trying to add in a bunch of stuff you might >>>want "some day" -- You'll drive yourself crazy trying to get it all >>>installed, and never get to it until you need to upgrade PHP anyway. "I >>>been down that road before" >>> >> >> >> I install from source, so that's good. after i run ./config.nice >> --width-mcrypt, do i have to copy any file to my php dir? Thanks in >> advance. >> > not '--width-mcrypt', just '--with-mcrypt' ;) Sorry, i must learn to think before i type ;-) but i am still left wondering if i have to copy anythign to my php dir after running said command. -- -Nick Peters -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
