Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <415283CF.3030309@x-ray.at> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:05:35 +0200 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Subject: Re: New packge: lighttpd-1.3.0 References: <41519C77.4080201@x-ray.at> <1656566026.20040922215552@familiehaase.de> In-Reply-To: <1656566026.20040922215552@familiehaase.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: > if you ask me, the PHP build system is broken. I said before, that the php build system is horrible. Something to hate. But it has gotten much better. broken shared lib targets are really matter of libtool. > I tried to build 5.0.1, I'm getting no lipphp, no shared modules, libphp.a builds fine. Then the problem begins. But I still believe that the problem is in my lack of understanding the dirty details of dlltool and friends. > libdb is not found... same as with apache :) > If you specify an extension and the relevant > dependency is not available the configure exits, it is terrible, this > sucks really. agreed. there should be an apache-like --enable-most option, which tries to find the installed libraries. adding them expliticly gives you at least the configure line output in . > How do I need to configure to get a shared library? Shared modules? shared modules are built automatically. > Why isn't there a howto about this in the source dist included? Who > is responsible for this broken system? I never cared to read their devel mailinglist. I only cared to use it, and struggle with configure from time to time. I didn't trust their abilities too much, in comparison to most other languages developers (lisp, perl, ...). But I like the product! > If I call `make libphp5.la` I get a static archive, no DLL, it is > weird... > I hate this package since I tried to build it the first time. :) > Am Mittwoch, 22. September 2004 um 17:38 schriebst du: >>Should we build statically? >>no. that's about 17MB for each php.exe or dll :) > My executable is 8 MB stripped. > >>you want pdflib and pspell also? >>see my list. pdflib is non-free I think. > > > I don't know, pdflib-lite is available as source, isn't the license > OSI approved? I don't have aspell installed, but if it is available > as shared module, why not? > > >>I'd need xdebug also, maybe apd. >>best would be to add all the modules which are supported and in the >>nightly snaps. > >>>That would be OK if all the extensions are built as modules, but building >>>everything into one php executable would make it pretty big, wouldn't it? > > >>the extensions are just shared interfaces to the existing dll. >>only mysql and some esoteric ones, which are not in the usual setup are >>static. > > > Why don't I get a shared libphp? How to configure it to get it with > shared modules? -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/