Re: [Devil-linux-develop] PHP problems.

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> >> > The "mail()" function appears to be broken in PHP DL 1.2.1.  I get:
> >> >
> >> >   Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail()
> >> >
> >> > Which is odd since the documentation says:
> >> >
> >> >   There is no installation needed to use these functions;
> >> >   they are part of the PHP core.
> >> >
> >> > My only guess is postfix needs to be installed on the LFS so PHP can
> >> > find it.  Any other ideas?  If not, I'll try installing Postfix.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Also, some of the case insensitive string functions are broken.
> >> >
> >> > i.e.  stripos()  is undefined, but  strpos()  works.
> >> > Same for a couple other str[i]... string functions I tried,
> >> > except  strtolower()  works.
> >> >
> >> > The string functions are also part of the PHP core, so I have
> >> > no clue how to solve this one.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Are you trying to run a specific application?
> >
> > I'm writing my own.
> >
> >> I'm using SquirrelMail and didn't experience any problems.
> >
> > I pretty sure that SquirrelMail doesn't use the mail() function.
> > No idea what string functions it uses.
> 
> The only other application I ran before is ACID and I didn't have problems
> with that one either. But again it doesn't use the mail() function.

The original build log for PHP says:

  checking for sendmail... no

When I manually install postfix in the LFS and run PHP ./configure: 

  checking for sendmail... /usr/sbin/sendmail

I suspect that's the problem for the mail() function.

I'll change the postfix build script to install in the LFS,
recompile, test, and report back.  (and commit if it works :)


I think I solved the string [i] functions too, they are only available
in PHP5 and above.

 - BS