Open Tech Notes

Let Apachefriends supports Pspell extension for PHP 5.2.5

Apachefriends is great project that facilitate the configuration of LAMP,  but it’s latest version(1.6.5a) does not support Pspell extension for PHP which is required in our development team.

Fortunately, Apachefriends project provides a development package so that I can take advantage of it to re-compile the PHP. My Linux version is CentOS 4.5 final, all the steps are pretty straightforward:

1) Download latest apachefriends packages (both working package and development package) and install them.
2) Download PHP 5.2.5 and untar it
3) yum install pspell-devel
4) Download libbz2 and install it
5) Hack the PHP configuration
    
   This is the original apachefriends’s php configuration

./configure –prefix=/opt/lampp –with-apxs2=/opt/lampp/bin/apxs –with-config-file-path=/opt/lampp/etc –with-mysql=/opt/lampp –enable-inline-optimization –disable-debug –enable-bcmath –enable-calendar –enable-ctype –enable-dbase –enable-discard-path –enable-exif –enable-filepro –enable-force-cgi-redirect –enable-ftp –enable-gd-imgstrttf –enable-gd-native-ttf –with-ttf –enable-magic-quotes –enable-memory-limit –enable-shmop –enable-sigchild –enable-sysvsem –enable-sysvshm –enable-track-vars –enable-trans-sid –enable-wddx –enable-yp –with-ftp –with-gdbm=/opt/lampp –with-jpeg-dir=/opt/lampp –with-png-dir=/opt/lampp –with-freetype-dir=/opt/lampp –without-xpm –with-zlib=yes –with-zlib-dir=/opt/lampp –with-openssl=/opt/lampp –with-expat-dir=/opt/lampp –enable-xslt=/opt/lampp –with-xsl=/opt/lampp –with-dom=/opt/lampp –with-ldap=/opt/lampp –with-ncurses=/opt/lampp –with-gd –with-imap-dir=/opt/lampp –with-imap-ssl –with-imap=/opt/lampp –with-gettext=/opt/lampp –with-mssql=/opt/lampp –with-sybase=/opt/lampp –with-interbase=shared,/opt/interbase –with-mysql-sock=/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock –with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/opt/lampp/lib/instantclient –with-mcrypt=/opt/lampp –with-mhash=/opt/lampp –enable-sockets –enable-mbstring=all –with-curl=/opt/lampp –enable-mbregex –enable-zend-multibyte –enable-exif –with-bz2=/opt/lampp –with-sqlite=shared,/opt/lampp –with-libxml-dir=/opt/lampp –enable-soap –enable-pcntl –with-mysqli=/opt/lampp/bin/mysql_config –with-mime-magic –with-pgsql=shared,/opt/lampp/postgresql –with-iconv –enable-dio –with-pdo-mysql=/opt/lampp –with-pdo-pgsql=/opt/lampp/postgresql –with-pdo-sqlite –with-ming=shared,/opt/lampp

Because we only use MySQL , so I remove other database support from it such as:

–with-pdo-pgsql=/opt/lampp/postgresql
–with-pgsql=shared,/opt/lampp/postgresql
–with-oci8=shared,instantclient,/opt/lampp/lib/instantclient
–with-interbase=shared,/opt/interbase

Of course, in order to support Pspell extension, add this at the end

–with-pspell=/usr

6) re-compile the php

Done!