James Coyle wrote: > I hope this is not off topic, but here goes... > > I installed Apache2 from a binary version provided by Server > Logistics. Since the installation, I have updated it to version 2.0.59. > > I have since discovered that Server Logistic's binary version of PHP5 > isn't compatible with this updated version. > > Server Logistic's binary versions of Apache2 and PHP install to the > root level Library rather than to /usr/local, which I gather is the > usual place for Apache, MySQL and PHP. > > I'd like to know if there's a way I can use Fink's version of PHP5 in > conjunction with my version of Apache, again, which is installed in > the root level Library. > > I'm too much of a UNIX novice to figure out the path and/or config > issues which I know will be involved. > > Thanks. > The short answer is "no", because Fink is deliberately not set up to search for dependent files in arbitrary locations.
That being said, that's only a package design issue, not something fundamental. Fink's PHP5 and the other packages in its dependency chain that use apache2 could be jury-rigged on a local system not to have an explicit dependency on it, and thereby to find one in /usr based on detection by configure scripts. Since Fink's is also 2.0.59, there's a good change that this would work. Or a placeholder package could be written to provide the appropriate apache2* packages. Note that these also expect a predetermined location for file installation, so separate ones would have to be used for apache2 in /usr, apache2 in /usr/local, apache2 in /opt/local, ... Plus, if an upstream developer changes the location of a file, this breaks our placeholder and it has to be reworked. Or PHP5 can be hand-built, using fink's .info and .patch files as guides. --akh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
