using options with RPM

[Anon]

(pardon the length of this)I'm trying to upgrade from PHP3 to PHP4 on a Red Hat 6.2/Apache 1.3.12 (i686) system -- with Postgres support.

ran into dead end because APXS does not exist on system. Tried to grab the apache tarball and adapt the apxs.pl into a useable apxs file by changing path info.

now we get an error when trying to 'make' PHP.

error:

/bin/sh /home/users/fgrp/php/php-4.0.1pl2/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O
2 -o libphp4.la -rpath /home/users/fgrp/php/php-4.0.1pl2/libs -avoid-version -
L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -R /usr/local/pgsql/lib stub.lo Zend/libZend.la sapi/apac
he/libsapi.la main/libmain.la ext/db/libdb.la ext/dba/libdba.la ext/gd/libgd.la
ext/mysql/libmysql.la ext/pcre/libpcre.la ext/pgsql/libpgsql.la ext/posix/libpo
six.la ext/session/libsession.la ext/standard/libstandard.la ext/sysvsem/libsysv
sem.la ext/sysvshm/libsysvshm.la ext/xml/libxml.la ext/zlib/libzlib.la -lgdbm -
lpam -ldl -lz -lpq -lgd -ldb -lgdbm -lresolv -lm -ldl -lcrypt -lnsl -lresolv
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file .libs/libphp4.so: Permission denied
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: [libphp4.la] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/users/fgrp/php/php-4.0.1pl2'
make: [all-recursive] Error 1

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anyway... so now we're trying to go the RPM route instead. my question (unless someone has a quick answer for the above error) is how do I include (using RPM) all the "--with" and "--enable" arguments normally used in the ./configure statement? I understand that I have to first install other rpm's like Postgres (before I can install PHP (actually, will it work if it's a non-RPM install of Postgres?) but what about options like '--enable-track-vars'? Here's my configure statement and can I get all functionality therein by using RPM?

./configure '--with-pgsql' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd'
'--enable-safe-mode' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-system-regex' '--disable-debug' '--with-zlib'
'--with-gdbm' '--with-db2' '--enable-debugger' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-track-vars'
'--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--with-xml' '--with-ftp'

thanks (and apologies again for the lack of brevity)

[Anon]

sorry... i pasted the wrong error msg. the other was simply due to not being the right user. the real error is:

Making all in .
make[1]: Entering directory /home/users/fgrp/php/php-4.0.1pl2'
/bin/sh /home/users/fgrp/php/php-4.0.1pl2/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O
2 -o libphp4.la -rpath /home/users/fgrp/php/php-4.0.1pl2/libs -avoid-version -
L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -R /usr/local/pgsql/lib stub.lo Zend/libZend.la sapi/apac
he/libsapi.la main/libmain.la ext/db/libdb.la ext/dba/libdba.la ext/gd/libgd.la
ext/mysql/libmysql.la ext/pcre/libpcre.la ext/pgsql/libpgsql.la ext/posix/libpo
six.la ext/session/libsession.la ext/standard/libstandard.la ext/sysvsem/libsysv
sem.la ext/sysvshm/libsysvshm.la ext/xml/libxml.la ext/zlib/libzlib.la -lgdbm -
lpam -ldl -lz -lpq -lgd -ldb -lgdbm -lresolv -lm -ldl -lcrypt -lnsl -lresolv
main/.libs/libmain.al: object main/.libs/libmain.al(main.lo) in archive is not o
bject
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libphp4.la] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory/home/users/fgrp/php/php-4.0.1pl2'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

[Anon]

Maybe you should try shoving the RPM up your ass. That might work. I love you Doug.

[Anon]

no use... halfway through that process I got an internal error... and boy did it hurt!!

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now somebody give me a real answer, geez...

it looks as if i'd have to get the src file and put the argument options in the SPEC file and then build the rpm. is this right? also, what's the difference between the regular php rpm and the mod_php rpm?

[Anon]

i did this:
downloaded the php-4.0.1pl2-7.src.rpm from redhat's rawhide directory.
installed it on my redhat 6.2 system.
edit the php.spec file. You can change whatever options with it that you need. if you are using a source install of postgresql then you will need to change the postgresql requirements... (since you may not have the postgresql-devel rpm installed.) make sure you have the other -devel rpms installed that the spec file requires.. they are all listed in there. Then you should be able to rpm -ba php.spec and get a whole new set of php rpms to use. (i had to edit the httpd.conf file) (you'll also notice that the new src.rpm uses a different document root than 6.2 so you may want to change that.)

you'll notice in the spec file there's a ./configure command that has most of your options already there.