the following url explains how to build a single extension for an existing php installation .. it's not really Mac specific and may help someone on another system stuck with the same problem: http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2007/Nov/msg00315.html Jochem Maas schreef: > hi guys, > > well having tried for countless hours to build php on leopard I pretty much gave up. > apparently it's pretty much impossible unless your name is Marc Liyanage (entropy.ch) ... > > the problem lies with the fact that you need 64bit libs and the some (most notably iconv) > of the libs included with Leopard are borked in respect to the 'universal build' stuff (which > I gather means you actually have a number of different [architecture related] executables bundled > into a single file ... I probably have that all wrong, to be honest it's a little over my head. > > Marc L. offers a tarball with a working php5.2.5 (just untar and move the php5 dir to /usr/local): > http://www2.entropy.ch/download/php5-5.2.5.leopard.release1.tar.gz > > his build does work but it doesn't include one extension that I rely on for some of my projects, > namely interbase. > > I figured I'd try using Marc' configure line (as given by /usr/local/php5/bin/php-config against the > source of php5.2.5 that I downloaded and add the relevant configure option (--with-interbase[=DIR]) > ... in the hope I at least get a couple of usable extensions so that I could copy the ibase extension > over into the working php5.2.5 installation ... no joy. > > I figure I'm screwed - I have a painfully expensive dev machine I can't blooming use. oh well, > at least it is the nicest looking paper weight I've got. > > I'm still wondering whether it's possible to build just the interbase extension ... anyone know > how to do that? or have any tips? > > rgds, > Jochem > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
