Re: Trouble with php 4.33 RPM on SuSE 7.3

From: stephan beal (stephan_at_s11n.net)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:19:47 +0100

Russell wrote:
> I've tried using the mod_php 4.33 RPM from
> ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/apache/mod_php4/7.3-i386/
>
> Everything works great until I try php grouware which dies with Fatal
> error: Call to undefined function: imap_open()
...
> SO I _think_ this might be my problem. Trouble is, I ahve no idea how to
> go about building the source rpm available in that folder.

You're exactly right: the php needs to be built --with-imap (or
--with-cygnus, or whatever the option is actually called).

> /usr/src/packages/SPECS/mod_php4.spec:30: parseExpressionBoolean returns
> -1

Probably because Suse 7.x uses a much older version of RPM, missing some
features which have been introduced since then.

> and from here I am stuck. It seems this srpm has lots of Apache2 stuff
> in it, when all I need to build is the modphp rpms for apache 1.3.x

Follow the installation docs which come with the PHP source tree and you'll
be all set.

> Can anyone offer any help or suggestions? Given the RPMs install, if I
> could jsut fix this one bit, it'd be so much easier than going to source
> with something like apachetoolbox.

Building PHP is not difficult: the docs explain it 100% clearly and
accurately. 

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