Re: [arch-general] Making a PHP package with the embed SAPI

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Brendan Long <korin43@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas of how to make this a simple php-embed package that would only install the needed parts.

I became curios how other distros package phc - turns out they don't. There are two packages provided on phc website, one for RPM-based systems, other for FreeBSD. Both packages are outdated and neither tackles custom php build flags. It might be that a custom build of PHP wasn't required in prior versions. Suggestion: create a PHP package built with --enable-embed flag, name it something other than php and make it a dependency for the phc package. Anyone care to comment why this might be a bad idea?