Posted by J.O. Aho on 04/28/07 05:57

Ozz wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I think I need some pointers here. I have a fc6 running apache/php
> 5.1.6. By default, gd lib in not included in php. To include it, you
> need to re-compile php with gd. All works well until here.
>
> But, what if I also want to be able to update php5 automatically, as
> the updates are released. Traditionally, once to recompile anything,
> it can no be updated through update manager...

You can make your own RPM based on the official, you donwload the *.src.rpm
and install it: rpm -i package.src.rpm

Now go to /usr/src/fedora/SPECS and edit the php.spec and just add the gd
option to configure, save the spec and then build it with:
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/fedora/SPECS/php.spec

When finished you have a new RPM in /usr/src/fedora/RPMS/{def-arch}/

Of course next time you auto update you will loose the gd support if it's not
built in by Fedora.

Otherwise you can switch to a meta-distribution like Gentoo, where you can
select which options should be compiled into each package and you will get
that each time you upgrade.

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//Aho

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