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Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-19T01:58:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> So you then have to build PHP twice, in an RPM build environment.  You mean I 
> can't just have the headers installed to build plPHP?  So, follow the 

No you need to make sure that PHP is available as a shared lib.


> 1.) Build PostgreSQL
> 2.) Build PHP (with PostgreSQL client support)
> 3.) Build plPHP (with PostgreSQL SPI support, or maybe even PostgreSQL client 
> support for cross database queries? :-))

Right.

> 
> Try building the RPMs for PHP plus PostgreSQL and plPHP, then tell me how you 
> solved the circular dependency.

Actually plPHP doesn't require the PostgreSQL source tree... you would 
just have to modify the Make file to point to the right places.

J