From: Jeff Hanson (jhanson_at_sgi.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2007 - 03:50:05 CEST
Message-ID: <465CD84D.3090202@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:50:05 -0400 From: Jeff Hanson <jhanson@sgi.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Best option for rpm sources to rebuild on SLES 9
Carlos Lorenzo Matés wrote:
> El Martes, 29 de Mayo de 2007, Gaël Lams escribió:
> Hi Gaël.
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> We are getting some errors with a PHP application and are told by the
>>> developers that this is due a bug in the SLES 9 PHP version.
>>>
>>> We only use PHP in this SLES 9 for this application.
>>>
>>> so we think the best option for use is to upgrade to PHP 5.
>> php 4 and php 5 are different: I'm not sure moving to php 5 will
>> "solve" your problem, actually it may "create" other problems but if
>> you think going with php5 is your solution and your server host only
>> this php application, why don't you move to SLES10? This you would get
>> also php security updates.
>
> We are using eGroupware, now in 1.4 RC2, this application is mainly developed
> for php 5, it supports php 4, but im getting errors with php4 that the
> developers identify with a php bug.
>
>> Actually, I moved pretty much all my servers to SLES10 and, for the
>> php applications requiring php 4, I configured php from source (not
>> really difficult) using the latest php 4.4.x source code.
>
> Well, this server is our main server it does ldap services, smtp, imap, and
> file services, i'm not sure to upgrade it without problem .... i prefer to
> build php5 from source, but it will be easier if a src rom could be used .
>
> Is possible to have both installed php4 from the sles and php5 built from
> source?
On opensuse 10.2 the php is php5. It seems that the rpms use php5 in
their pathing. Try the src rpms from opensuse 10.2 or sles 10 and with
some fiddling they should be able to build on your sles 9 system.
And install without conflict with the existing sles 9 php 4
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