Posted by J.O. Aho on 12/22/06 18:19

Steven Munlo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use PHP5 on my "old" BSDi server. But there are no binaries
> around. Does anybody know how to install/compile PHP5.2 for the BSDi
> platform? Maybe CGI would be enough, because I don't want to reinstall
> the Apache 1.3.
>
> BTW, BSDi is a commercial PC BSD-Unix, but its not FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
> NetBSD. Thanks for any help!

It's more or less the same way as in any other BSD version.

download the source
extract it
cd to the source directory
read the documentation (see that you have headers and libs for all needed)
configure
and then run "make install"

This is the way you can do it in any real unix and unix-like OS if you can't
get official packages.

--

//Aho

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