Fwd: Re: [imp] Problem w/ PHP 4.2.1, IMP 3.0, Log.php

[Jon Parise]

> The one problem with the instructions (I used these just this morning. 
> :) regarding PEAR is that it assumes that you also have the PHP binary 
> installed, while the rest of the instructions show how to install PHP as 
> an apache module.
> 
> When installed as a module, you really do not have a /usr/bin/php 
> binary, and, hence, cannot run "pear" which is simply a php script with 
> "#!/usr/bin/php" as the first line.. :(

I believe PHP 4.2.0 and later also build the php command line binary,
but I may be incorrect about that.  The HEAD php tree definitely
includes that functionality, though.
 
> I simply grabbed the necessary PEAR module(s), untar-gz'ed them, and 
> placed them in their appropriate locations (I looked at package.xml just 
> to make sure I was placing them in the proper locations).  Not sure if 
> that is a good thing, but it worked at the time..
 
At this point, that's pretty much all the pear install tools do
anyway, so it's a safe course of action (although not something I
would recommend canonically).

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Information Technology (2001)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member