Re: Configure line of PHP 5.1 port

On Aug 29, 2006, at 18:56, Antoine Pouch wrote:

> I'm a user of MacOSX DarwinPorts, and used your port to install PHP  
> 5 on
> my Mac. I'm also a linux guru and used to install from source (or  
> using
> gentoo's emerge), but with my mac I wanted to try DarwinPorts. So  
> here I
> am. But there is one problem with the PHP port, it does not allow for
> much configuration of the configure line. I'd like to add
> '--enable-pdo=shared --with-pdo-sqlite=shared' for example, but there
> are no variants for that. Do you have an easy way of doing it ? I'd  
> like
> not to "hack" it though, so it would be easy to reproduce on the next
> upgrade.
> Should I use the configure.args file ? Or maybe you could expand the
> variants ? I can help in that regard, I compiled PHP from source a
> hundred times for different needs, and have good knowledge of their
> configuration options.


Hello Antoine. I am copying the MacPorts mailing list on this reply,  
since I do not feel well-equipped to answer all your questions and  
maybe someone there will be better able. Although I am the maintainer  
of the php5 port, I understand the portfile format only very  
minimally. I only took over the port because I needed it, and because  
nobody else was maintaining it.


The request to add --enable-pdo=shared is the following bug record:

http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6604

I haven't done anything with it because I do not understand why one  
would want it. What would be the arguments for or against using  
shared PDO? James Thompson II suggests that shared is better because  
then you could upgrade it with pecl, but we removed pear and perl  
from the php5 port some time ago because they were problematic. So is  
there another reason to prefer shared PDO? Is there a reason to  
prefer what we have now?


I am not familiar with the configure.args file or with attempting to  
modify a port's configure arguments other than by modifying the  
portfile itself. Perhaps someone else on the list can address how  
that can be done.