Recompile php

[vigour]

I have php installed on my iMac with latest version of Snow Leopard. I installed php from source a while ago but I forgot zip support. I want to recompile php with zip support. But I have never recompiled anything before. What should I do to make this correct?

[bradgrafelman]

I would first suggest you download the latest version of PHP.

You could probably get away with just recompiling PHP and using the same --prefix switch you used before and the 'make install' command will then overwrite the previous files. Otherwise, I'm not sure what the cleanest way of removing the old PHP would be (other than doing a 'make uninstall' in the directory where the old source files were compiled in).

Also note that you can run "php -i | grep configure" to find the previous "./configure" line used when you last compiled PHP.

[sneakyimp]

bradgrafelman;10973250 wrote:

Also note that you can run "php -i | grep configure" to find the previous "./configure" line used when you last compiled PHP.

That's an extremely helpful tip. If you look at the contents of [man]phpinfo[/man] the value of 'configure command' should be the exact command you ran last time when you were installing PHP.

You'll want to add something like --enable-zip or --enable-gzip or something like that to it.

If you want more information about your available options, cd into the php source directory and type ./configure --help like so:

$prompt: cd ~/src/php-5.3.5
$prompt: ./configure --help | grep zip

for me that returns " --enable-zip Include Zip read/write support"