On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Todd Cary wrote:
Tom -
I need a refresher here! If I remember correctly (it has been several years since I was exposed to this), the .srpm is the source, but I am not sure how to rebuild it. The configure that includes Interbase is
# ./configure --with-interbase=shared,/opt/firebird
Can you point me toward some examples of recompiling the .srpm for PHP? That really makes sense. As I have said in other messages, it is about every few years that I need to revisit this aspect of Linux, so my abilities are limited/rusty. The rest of my time is spent with Delphi writing applications for my clients in the "other" environment/OS.
I would suggest you get the fedora rpmdevtools rpm and run the rpmdev-setuptree program to setup a build tree within your home directory. Yes, I know you are running CentOS but the package is a noarch thing and the rpmdev-setuptree program is just a bash script. That will give you a place to build your rpms.
It sounds like it should be as simple as running rpm -Uvh php-whatever.src.rpm, then editing the .spec file, modifying the configure line and then running rpmbuild -ba php-whatever.spec.
Of course your mileage may vary and we all know that the above would be too easy but you never know. You might get lucky :-)
If you want to step through the build process you can do rpmbuild -bp for the prep step, -bc for the prep and compile, etc.. man rpmbuild or the docs at rpm.org will have more detailed info.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Tom