[sclug] Mandrake 9 and PHP upgrade + TAOUP

[James Wyper]

Thank you both for your advice.  I've taken the opportunity to upgrade
to Apache 2 and successfully installed both that and PHP 4.3.4.  The
getimagesize() bug has gone in 4.3.4 too!

On a different topic - has anyone else read (either on the web at
www.catb.org/~esr or in published form as I have) Eric Raymond's new
book "The Art of Unix Programming"?  If you haven't, you should put it
on your Christmas lists - it deserves to be a classic.  I finished it
this evening - the best computer book I have read in years.

Thanks again,
James.

 --- Alex Butcher <lug at assursys.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003,
Matt wrote:
> 
> > * James Wyper <jrwyper at yahoo.co.uk> [2003-11-14 11:24:13]:
> > > 
> > > So I've downloaded the source for 4.3.4, compiled, installed as
> per the
> > > instructions, run "apachectl restart" several times and.. the PHP
> > > application I'm trying to get working(the excellent gallery
> project
> > > from sourceforge) still reports PHP version 4.2.3.
> > > 
> > > From browsing around the web it appears that some versions of
> apache
> > > run with PHP support bound in somehow and that therefore you need
> to
> > > recompile apache when you upgrade PHP.  (At present I only have
> the
> > > binary apache 1.3.26 that came with Mandrake).
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > If you do that, try building Apache with DSO support, and building
> PHP
> > as a DSO as well, so that then your PHP will be a dynamic module,
> and it
> > can be upgraded in the future without having to touch Apache.
> 
> Incidentally, as with Red Hat, your best bet for rebuilding Mandrake
> packages will be to install the appropriate src.rpms, edit the .spec
> file
> (/usr/src/mandrake/SPECS/foo.spec ?) and rebuild with your
> customisations/updated (sub-)components. That way, the package will
> work in
> exactly the same way as Mandrake's original, other than your changes.
> 
> Do otherwise, and you run the risk that other things that used to
> work will
> cease to do so.
> 
> > HTH
> > Matt
> 
> Best Regards,
> Alex.
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