Posted by Toby A Inkster on 07/12/07 09:58

Sjoerd wrote:

> Installing it from a package gives you a fairly standard PHP
> installation. For my distribution, it is even possible to add extensions
> using packages. However, if you want the latest version, extension for
> which no packages exists, or some other option which does not come with
> the package, you have to compile PHP yourself.

Installing PHP using your package manager shouldn't preclude you from
compiling additional modules yourself.

My main development machine has PHP installed via Mandriva's URPMI tool,
but I've compiled the pdo and pdo_pgsql extensions myself.

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