[CentOS] Compiling PHP and MySQL

Mon Jun 13 17:04:15 UTC 2011
Athmane Madjoudj <athmane at fedoraproject.org>

On 06/13/2011 05:59 PM, Dvorkin, Asya wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I need to install an older version of PHP - 5.2.16, which is not currently available through an official CentOS repo (as far as I can tell).
>
> In order to fulfill our developer's requirements, I've decided to just compile  PHP and MySql from the source.
>
> Is there a way to find out what are the usual configure options that are used to compile binaries that are available through yum?
>

CentOS testing[1][2] repo (for C5) has php-5.2.3 to php-5.2.10, also 
CentOS 5.6 has php-5.3.x

[1] http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-Testing.repo
[2] http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/i386/RPMS/

HTH
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Athmane Madjoudj