On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 16:16, Emiliano wrote: > On Sunday 24 March 2002 22:49, you wrote: > > If you're using 4.1.X you may need the latest CVS version of Midgard, > preferably the MMP module. There have been reports of the 1.4.2 release not > playing nice with 4.1.X.
Thanks, I might try that. > Telling us that you struggled for two days in which you did 120 attempts, > WITHOUT TELLING US ABOUT IT, amounts to you complaining that we can't read > your mind. If I could, I'd be rich and retiring in Hawaii (does Hawaii have a > dropzone? Hmmm....). Given the fact that I'm not, assume I can't. So, you > probably made the statement in frustration. OK, I can understand that, but > It's not exactly making me happy being blamed for something 1) I could not > fix, since I wasn't told about the problem, and 2) I'm doing for the love of > things. So give me a break, OK? Who's blaming you for anything? Sounds like you perhaps feel guilty about something and I don't NEED to blame you for anything if this is the way you respond. ;-) Must you know why it took me like 120 times to compile? Well I can't quite remember the groggy caffeine induced details, but I'll try. First keep in mind I installed RPM's for everything INCLUDING the PHP module and then uninstalled the PHP module when I realized it didn't like the newer PHP. The readme's included with the source didn't cover the required options for configure - or at least I didn't see them. I finally found them in the comments on the website after I'd reached about try 20. For some reason it couldn't find the path in my Mandrake 8.1 to any of the headers or other files it needed such as apxs, then my apxs didn't like the enable versioning option, then it couldn't find the xml modules or something, then it couldn't find... well you get the picture. I spent at least the first 20 hours trying to run .configure. Then I found that it couldn't even find it's own pieces - the PHP portion kept asking for a path to Midgard. I tried installing the RPM for midgard-lib thinking maybe I forgot it but it said it was already installed. About 4 hours later I finally force reinstalled the RPM for midgard-lib and it found it. Don't ask me why a file or files got removed... maybe when I uninstalled the rpm for the php module so I could build it from source. Suffice it to say that the instructions I found were less than newbie friendly. And I've downloaded, configured and built hundreds of apps - but never one of this magnitude. I always look for the "INSTALL" file for directions, but I'm used to doing three things "./configure" "make" and "make install" - never had to specify options except when I compiled my PHP, and I found a NHF that told me what to put there. Maybe I'm just too ignorant to use Midgard. (IGNORANT= LACKING IN KNOWLEDGE) Well I did recompile my kernel a few times, but it's all yes/no questions. > Did you explicitly compile PHP against the mysql-supplied libs, or the > internal ones from PHP? The latter will not work. General problem with PHP. Uh... I think I used the internal support. As a matter of fact I'm sure I did. Well, I don't plan to recompile everything on my box so I think I'll just stop here for now (no offense, it's just past my pain threshold.) Last time I accidentally killed PHP support for 4 hours while trying to upgrade to 4.1.6 for security reasons. My users freaked. It's a good thing they're all family members and I could tell them to buzz off and just be glad e-mail still worked. Perhaps I'll try again after there are new Mandrake RPM's built against the newer PHP... Thanks for the input and accompanying flame. Geez and I even made an effort to find and search the archives... ;-) A newbie just can't win! -Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
