how did these become broken?

Anon

I'm at a complete loss here -
I work on Mac OSX 1.2 with 4.0.16 PHP, and everything was going fine. Then I needed to recompile PHP from the standard install to include GD et al. Ever since doing that (and I followed the instructions given by Apple at devcenter), my mysqldump backup scripts nolonger function (although mysql restore scripts do), and file("http://somesite.com") returns a 'attempt to load .... failed', although file("/path/to/file") works fine.

I've tried recompiling without GD but I can't fix it. All my scripts work fine on two independent remote machines.

What gives?
How can I recompile PHP back to the Apple standard install?

Anon

duh, ok. So I did something which had I done ages ago could have save me much heartache.

RFL
'read the freekin logs'

right, so my backup script was nice and easy - permission denied (had I solved my earlier problem of how to echo script erros to the browser, I would have known this straight off!)

the file() or fopen() when a url is involved is still baffling, but someone [hopefully] may know.

the log says:
[Sun Jan 27 17:19:26 2002] [error] (22)Invalid argument: getsockname
[Sun Jan 27 17:19:27 2002] [notice] child pid 412 exit signal Bus error (10)
[Sun Jan 27 17:19:27 2002] [notice] child pid 408 exit signal Bus error (10)

so I read this as apache doesn't understand getsockname (whatever!). I've tried reinstalling the system software, which configures php to base (waytogo Apple - when things screw up, just go and reinstall the system software!). DOes anyone know how to get around this error, or what causes it?