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liyanage

As you may remember I ran into difficulties building the PHP package as 4-way universal binary a loooong time ago after Leopard came out. I never found time to resolve all these issues and the package was practically abandoned after some betas.

Now my friend Joachim Fornallaz, sponsored by Straumann AG, did all the work of updating my build system, many of the libraries needed for the extensions, and the PHP sources. The result is an up to date 5.2.9 package with most, but not all, of the usual extensions present. PDFLib lite is currently missing, for example.

The module works well in our own tests. Some of the issues seem to have simply disappeared in the long time since the last beta. I found no MySQL or mcrypt problems, for example (but we need more testing).

Unlike the last few betas, this release is again distributed as an Installer package and not as a .tar.gz file that you need to unpack yourself. As usual with my packages, it installs everything into /usr/local/php5/.

It is for Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopard only. That means that it only works with the Apache 2 included by Apple in Leopard. It activates itself by placing a symbolic link to the config file snippet /usr/local/php5/entropy-php.conf into the directory /etc/apache2/other/. Apple’s main httpd.conf file stays completely untouched.

All you have to do to remove the package again is this:

theKiwi · Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 12

Welcome back Marc - what a nice surprise, AND what a way to mark your 1000th post!!!!!!

I'll install this onto my MacBook later today and if that goes OK I'll put it onto my MacPro which has been running your 5.2.5 Release 6 Beta since I got it in February of 2008.

Cheers

Roger

liyanage · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 21:08 Post subject:

KeepAlive · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:06 Post subject:

Thanks very much to Joachim for his work, I've been trying to compile my own PHP with extensions for ages (not even universal binary).

I just installed the new beta (on ppc64 architecture aka G5) and there seems to be an issue with the mcrypt.so extension: Apache cannot start and returns the following error when running configtest:

liyanage · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:19 Post subject:

KeepAlive · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:42 Post subject:

liyanage · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:58 Post subject:

OK. It’s a bug, users should not be required to install the dev tools, and the next release will fix that.

KeepAlive · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:16 Post subject:

I agree with you we shouldn't need Xcode.

With Xcode installed, the new beta works out of the box on ppc64 with all extensions enabled including mcrypt.

However, I still get an error " dlopen(/usr/local/php5/libphp5.so, 10): Symbol not found: _xmlTextReaderSetup" when running apache config test, but it doesn't prevent httpd to start.

liyanage · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 15:10 Post subject:

Here’s an updated version that doesn’t require Xcode on the target system:

http://www2.entropy.ch/download/Entropy%20PHP%205.2.9-4.pkg

hartmurmur · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 9

Not sure if it goes without saying...

After installing the Entropy PHP package, to switch from your PHP5 that comes installed with Leopard you'll need to update your httpd.conf file to point to the Entropy version:

In httpd.conf, change:
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

To:

LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5/libphp5.so

Then restart Apache:

liyanage · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 17:20 Post subject: Re: Updating the httpd.conf

hartmurmur · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 9

When I leave as-is and load a page with phpinfo(); I get the Apple install config. When change httpd.conf to point direct to the Entropy version I see the Entropy details. Yes, I'm restarting Apache after the changes to httpd.conf.

What does that mean?

hartmurmur · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 9

Just to keep documenting. Sorry if this is just cluttering up the thread.

With the default:

liyanage · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 22:50 Post subject:

No problem, it’s not clutter, we do need to work this out Smile

Are you sure that what you labeled as “the default” is really what Apple ships by default in 10.5? On client or server? I thought that line is commented out in a pristine OS X install, but I could be wrong and I don’t have a fresh copy of OS X around on any machine to check.

Two friends tell me that LoadModule line is disabled in their default httpd.conf.

I probably still have to change the postinstall script so that it looks for activated LoadModule lines as in your example and disables them again.

hartmurmur · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 9

Correct. This is not the default httpd.conf. I've been using it for so long that I assumed that PHP was loaded by default. My httpd.conf file is barely different as most of my changes are in httpd-vhosts.conf anyway. Smile

I'm curious as to why the need for a separate .conf file for this install rather than just pointing the httpd.conf file to the Entropy version as I mentioned originally.