[CentOS] Re: PHP 4 on Centos 5

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Mon Aug 13 20:14:47 UTC 2007


Juan Nin wrote:
> forgot to say, I'm using the latest CentOS 4.5 SRPM:
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4.5/updates/SRPMS/php-4.3.9-3.22.5.src.rpm
> 
> 
> On 8/13/07, *Juan Nin* <juanin at gmail.com <mailto:juanin at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi!
> 
>     I want to install PHP 4 via RPM on a CentOS 5 server.
>     I downloaded the CentOS 4.5 , installed all needed dependency
>     packages, but I'm having troubles while building the RPM:
> 
>     I was having compile errors with the Apache APR module, I had to
>     make a symlink form apr-config to apr-1-config, since the package
>     expected to find apr-config which didn't exist, and had to pass via
>     CFLAGS the result of "apr-config --cppflags --includes --cflags"
> 
>     Now I reach a stage, where some test are made, I to check fo some
>     PHP bugs and it fails there...
>     I removed the first bug giving probelsm to see what happened, and
>     failed with another one, which it's really strange, bugs like the
>     #23951 which was solved in June 2003... I don;t understand why is
>     this happening..  :(
> 
>     Has anyone been able to compile a PHP 4 RPM on CentOS 5 or are there
>     any available SRPMs out there already prepared for this?
> 
>     I've compiled PHP 4.4.7 from source downloaded form php.net
>     <http://php.net> with no problems, but I would like to install it
>     via RPM, preferably by using the CentOS PHP 4 RPM.
>     If there isn't, I will compile directly form source and not use RPM,
>     but would prefer to do it via RPM if possible
> 
>     Thanks in advance,
> 
>     Juan
> 
>     PS: please, don't reply telling me to use PHP 5, I NEED to use PHP 4
>     on this case, will migrate to PHP 5 ASAP, but still can not do it
>     yet  :)


Well ... if you want php 4, then use centos-4.5 ... unless you are using
the centos-4.5 version of all things that php compiles against (httpd,
apr, etc.) then you are going to have nothing but problems trying to
downgrade the version.



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