PHP 4.3.0 phpinfo() not updated on recompile?

cliffyman

I compiled PHP 4.3.0 and created an Apache shared object (using the --with-apxs=/path/to/apache/bin/apxs configure option) and PHP was working just fine.

I then recompiled PHP to support GD. PHP's still working fine, and GD now appears when I call phpinfo(), but some of the information in it wasn't updated (the build date, the configure statement used, etc).

Is this supposed to change if you recompile (I would think it should)?

-Cliff

colbec

Interesting. One would think that when PHP is recompiled and told where an external library lives that it probes that library to see how it needs to configure the php hooks to run effectively with the external library. But unless the external lib. has changed at the same time then when PHP reports the configuration of the external library nothing will have changed. Or did I misunderstand?

cliffyman

When I compiled PHP the first time, I didn't include GD support. The second time it was compiled, I activated GD support (and the associated jpeg, png, zlib libraries, etc). When I load phpinfo() on a test page, it shows GD as being active, yet at the top of phpinfo() the build date is from the first time I built PHP and the configure statement is not the last one that I used before doing make and make install.

Weird, huh?

-Cliff

colbec

Perhaps it is an indication of the intelligence of 'make.' Since make is designed to only recompile those parts of the chain that absolutely have to be compiled, it found that the part that reports the build date could be left as it was given the new situation?