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liyanage · Last edited by liyanage on Fri Oct 07, 2005 20:50; edited 1 time in total

Sorry for the long delay, other stuff has been keeping me busy. I am now working on updates to all the packages on this site, first is a PHP 5.0.5 package. It also includes updates to many of the linked libraries.

For now it comes with the Lite version of PDFlib only. When it's finished there will be the usual selection of 4 modules (PDFlib lite/commercial - Apache 1.3/2.0).

I want to get some early feedback on this before I proceed:

- This was built on Tiger and I don't have a Panther machine on which I can test it, so I'd be interested to hear if it just works, and how important Panther support is for people out there. I really don't want to spend any effort on Panther compatibility unless there are a *lot* of people that need Panther support

- I'd like to hear if nothing is broken, especially TDS (sybase DB access) and PDFlib (which has been updated to 6.0.2)

http://www2.entropy.ch/download/Entropy-PHP-5.0.5-3.dmg
http://www2.entropy.ch/download/Entropy-PHP-5.0.5-apache2-3.dmg

The first is for your regular Apache 1.3 installation, the second one for Apple's unsupported Apache 2 in /opt/apache2 (on OS X Server only).

devplumber · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 8

Panther support is important to me.

I can't download your 5.0.5 build until next week though because I'm waiting on a new high-speed connection to be installed.

Maybe you could create a specific post/poll (if possible) to see how many others would like to continue with Panther support.

And maybe add a link to it on your PHP download page so as to reach the widest possible audience of people looking for your builds.

MilSF1 · Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Louisville, KY

Just did a bit of early testing on the module and all looks well for the basic stuff. Thanks for putting in the 4.1.14 MySQL client lib! That will help as our app is UTF-8, and we've had some customers who have had difficulties with roundtrip encoding. I'll be able to check that out now.

Great job and thanks for all the hard work!

-mark

p.s. --enable-mbstring=all please? Wink

liyanage · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 17:25 Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback so far. Don't worry, --enable-mbstring=all is on my list of highly desired features Smile

fatal error · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 20:39 Post subject:

for the first time ever.. I get errors when installing... Sad

well, not really of the installing, but more when the postflight tries to restart apache.. it chockes on this line:
LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so

Any suggestions?

snippet of install log:

liyanage · Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 21:55 Post subject:

Are you on Panther by any chance? What's the output of

fatal error · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:00 Post subject:

liyanage · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:08 Post subject:

Hmm nothing special there... Can I access that machine via SSH over the Internet? I'd like to try it myself... iChat or e-mail me if that's possible. I'll need an admin account on that box.

Do you have any other non-standard modules loaded?

grahama · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 11

I am on 10.3.9, and get the error [There were errors when installing the programl] when trying to upgraded php to your 5.05 package. Is there something special I need to do ?

Also, does the new php package have a new version of MING included ?

g

fatal error · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:20 Post subject:

liyanage · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 18:56 Post subject:

grahama: It's quite possible that it does not run at all on Panther.

fatal error: You can see every last detail about my build process in the Makefile available in my Subversion repository, linked to from several places on the website and in the forum.

lgallop · Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Notre Dame, IN

I just tested the installer on a virgin OS 10.3.9 machine, and it failed with the same error message as noted above. The error message occures during, or just after, the final installer scripts are executed.

By the by, Panther support is very important to me and my organization, as the University of Notre Dame (where I work) has yet to migrate to Tiger, plus I don't know if the older production machines I work with could handle Tiger...

liyanage · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:14 Post subject:

It's confirmed that this build will not run on Panther, I will look into that later.

It should run on Tiger though and I would really appreciate more testing and reports on Tiger machines, and the ability to log in to a machine on which it does not work.

larsnu · Joined: 13 Oct 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Oslo, Norway

I have tested the 5.0.5-3 package on my Mac OS X 10.4.2 with all Apple updates installed. I upgraded from 5.0.4. Everything seems to work fine.

Thanks for providing the PHP packages for Mac OS X.

Best regards
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Lars Nummedal

ultimate · Joined: 26 May 2003 Posts: 14 Location: Stillwater, OK