Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Compile and install in non-standard directory

On 03/04/2015 06:46 PM, Andy Theuninck wrote:
> I expected this to be straightforward but I'm running into perplexing
> problems and having little luck googling solutions. I would like to
> install all of the compiled files in non-standard directories so I can
> have the compiled version side-by-side with my current version. This
> is with the PHP-5.6 branch from github, if relevant.
>
> I'm running ./configure specifying both --prefix and --exec-prefix.
> Compilation finishes without issue. The first thing I notice when I
> run make install is it tries to dump the apache module in Apache's
> default directory completely ignoring the specified prefixes. After
> reviewing ./configure --help and all the documentation I can track
> down, I don't see any clear solution to this. Is there a way to
> specify an install path here that I'm missing?
>
> Next I tried using INSTALL_PATH. This isn't ideal since it appear to
> create /usr/lib etc directory levels under INSTALL_PATH, but at least
> the setting works. Except this crashes too. I'm seeing this exact bug
> from 2002 (reported as fixed but does not seem to be...):
> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17491
>
> If I run:
> INSTALL_PATH=/home/andy/php56/ make install
> The process dies with this error:
> apxs:Error: Config file /home/andy/php56//etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf not found.
>
> I really don't need the install process monkeying with my Apache
> configuration; I'm perfectly capable of adjusting it myself later. Is
> there any option I can specify to simply make it skip that step? Again
> I looked at the configure --help options and nothing stood out as
> particularly likely.
The way I always did it was setting it at configure time, Eg: 
INSTALL_PATH=/opt/php56 ./configure...

Did you try that?