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

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> >> > 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.

Change the build system and install postfix in the 'build' section.
Then make PHP dependend on postfix.

> 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.

Aaaahhh

DL 1.3.x is PHP5 included, but I doubt it's stable enough for a production
system.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org