[CentOS] PDFlib?

Tue Jan 2 19:32:56 UTC 2007
Mike Kercher <mike at vesol.com>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:00 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PDFlib?
> 
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:25:07AM -0600, Mike Kercher enlightened us:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> > > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 10:01 PM
> > > To: CentOS mailing list
> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] PDFlib?
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 05:09:57PM -0600, Mike Kercher 
> enlightened us:
> > > > I'm trying to create pdf's on the fly with php, but I'm
> > > getting errors
> > > > such as:
> > > > 
> > > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pdf_new()
> > > > 
> > > > I tried installing pdflib from dag, but I think I'm missing
> > > something
> > > > to plug it into php.
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone done this?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, the PDFlib in dag's repo isn't for php, if I remember 
> > > correctly. I ended up building PDFlib-Lite from the website using 
> > > the SRPM from pld linux, then updated the php-pecl-pdflib 
> RPM from 
> > > rpmforge (dag) to 2.1.2 and installed that.
> > > 
> > > I'm no longer using them in production, but I've still got spec 
> > > files if you need some guidance.
> > > 
> > > Matt
> 
> > 
> > Matt,
> > 
> > Thanks for the info.  I would be very interested in your 
> .spec files 
> > and any other guidance you may have.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I've been out with the holidays and all. I've attached 
> the src.rpm for php-pecl-pdflib and a .nosrc.rpm for 
> PDFLib-Lite. You'll have to download PDFLib-Lite 6.0.3 from 
> their website to rebuild, but that should get you in the 
> right direction.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Matt
> 
> --

Thanks for all of the help guys!  I think I actually got it working
yesterday by doing a pear install pdflib and then installing a
php-pecl-pdflib rpm for FC3.  I'm going to try rebuilding these
.src.rpm's so I have a cleaner installation.

Thanks again!

Mike