Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:32:41 +0930 From: Wayne Sierke <ws@au.dyndns.ws> To: Brad Mettee <bmettee@pchotshots.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: general question - php5 extensions Message-ID: <1216274561.81342.58.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20080711160604.039f86d0@mail.pchotshots.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20080711151918.03aa81c0@mail.pchotshots.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20080711151918.03aa81c0@mail.pchotshots.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20080711160604.039f86d0@mail.pchotshots.com>
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On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 22:47 -0400, Brad Mettee wrote:
> Ok, maybe I wasn't as clear as I should have been.
>
> It wasn't that I didn't find php5-extensions, or even that it's difficult
> to use, but actually tracking down the php5-extensions directory in the
> first place was somewhat of a problem because there is no mention anywhere
> of it in the lang/php5 doc files. I finally stumbled on a reference to it
> in a 2 year old doc I found on google while looking for how to make .so
> extension extensions be found by php.
Sometimes in these situations a little bit of lateral thinking can be
helpful. A couple of quick searches may have found you what you wanted:
%locate php | grep extension
/usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
/usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions/Makefile
/usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions/pkg-descr
/usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions
/usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions/Makefile
/usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions/pkg-descr
%cd /usr/ports && make quicksearch name=extension | grep -i
php
Port: php4-extensions-1.0
Path: /usr/ports/lang/php4-extensions
Info: A "meta-port" to install PHP extensions
Port: php5-extensions-1.1
Path: /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions
Info: A "meta-port" to install PHP extensions
Alternatively pipe to less(1) rather than grep(1) and use its search (/)
which can help to locate context-related information which might
otherwise be hidden by the more rigid grep filtering.
> There's also a couple of extensions
> not in the php5-extensions list, but I found them as well (samba share,
> "dir php5-* /ad /s" starting in the /usr/ports directory helped a lot).
find(1) will help you kick that nasty MS-DOS habit:
find /usr/ports -type d -name "php5-*"
and even:
ls -d /usr/ports/*/php5-*
could help reduce gratuitous use of SMB.
If you feel strongly enough that the existing documentation is
inadequate, you always have the option of submitting a PR to suggest
that it be changed, and also of submitting patches that implement your
suggestion.
Wayne
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