Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

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> Robert Treat wrote:
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>> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 13:46, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> Robert Treat wrote:
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>>>> Is telling the rpm maintainers to go fix their rpm's an option? As has
>>>> been hashed out before, the only thing that makes plphp different from
>>>> other pl's is that some of the current packagers are taking shortcuts
>>>> with the packaging scripts which introduces dependency issues. IMHO what
>>>> is included in the postgresql cvs and what is included in the main
>>>> tarball for postgresql should not be dictated by outside packagers.
>>>>
>>> That wasn't my understanding of the previous discussion. Does not php
>>> require pg client support configured in at build time?
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>> If your compiling it from source, it works similarly to perl... you only
>> need pg when compiling pg support into php, but you dont need tthis in for
>> plphp.
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> I suspect you are missing the point completely.
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> It is in fact not like building perl at all. I just downloaded php-4.3.11 and
> got this from configure --help:
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> --with-pgsql[=DIR] Include PostgreSQL support. DIR is the PostgreSQL
> base install directory, defaults to
> /usr/local/pgsql.
>
> You will not find any such parameter for building perl.
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> Now it is true that you don't need this in for plphp. But if you want php to
> have pg client support you need pg built first. And no sane packager is going
> to build php twice.

Actually, if you look through FreeBSD ports, this is exactly what happens
... when you build /usr/ports/devel/php4, it builds a "vanilla" php, no
modules ... if you want pgsql support, you go into
/usr/ports/databases/php4-pgsql, and build that (which has a dependency on
lang/php4) ...

So, for plphp, a "port" would just have to install /usr/ports/lang/php4 to
build, but would not necessarily build php4-pgsql ...

it is done this way to avoid packagers having to build a monolithich
"contains everything" php4 ...

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