RE: [binarycloud-dev] make errors with xml2php

[Andreas A. <a.a...@th...>]

Hi Alex,

That's how I would do it:

1:
We use a unix standard location for the shell interpreter
i.e. #!/usr/bin/php (creating a symlink isn't that hard, but only needed for
debugging purposes, see below)

2:
For the make process we introduce an new variable in
Makefile.in that is determined by a configure script i.e:

PHPCMD= "{by configure determined location}"

(after configure e.g. PHPCMD="/usr/local/bin/php -q")

in Makefiles that use command line php we just use
this syntax:

 @$(PHPCMD) $(XML2PHP) ... options etcpp

pros:
- the php command is in a single place
- configure don't has to modify all php shell scripts
- Actually we could leave out the #! line and with some mods
  the scripts could be "incldable" and used through the web
  (maybe we need this later => builing triggerd via an
  admin interface or whatever might be useful in the future).


Andi


>> 3) We should find a way to have a the interpreter
>> line in the php files more flexible through the
>> different platforms. Perl has a trick to do so
>> eval 'exec perl -S $0 "$@"'
>
> agreed, I was going to suggest a simple ./configure.sh which
> would do a grep for a php command line key.
>
> any other ideas?