Re: [Ltib] Building PHP with Ltib-Freescale.... problems.

[Stuart Hughes]

On 12/06/12 18:45, John Clark wrote:
> I am using the Freescale packaged Ltib and their configuration...
>
> However, I'm wondering if anyone has built PHP using the Ltib environment, and:
>
> 1) Not wanted to build the Apache web server, or any related modules.
> 2) Wanted to use Lighttpd for the web server.
>
> Looking at the config file for PHP, it would appear that someone felt building 
> the apache HTTPD was a 'required' element.
>
> Now, one of the issues I had with building Apache, was that apparently the 
> Freescale setup uses libdb-4.4.20. But the Apache version that is used, does 
> not 'understand' anything greater than libdb-4.3...
>
> It is not clear to me how to proceed in terms of changing the specs to match up 
> better, since I don't have visibility into the archive to know if there is a 
> later version of http-2.XXX, or what.
>
> As a note, this problem of Apache build breaking on libdb4.4.XXX seems to have 
> been around since 2006 or earlier... so, I suspect no one has actually tried to 
> use the Freescale PHP.
>
> The 'official' Ltib tree seems to have libdb3.XXX, which I believe is handled 
> by the HTTPD-2.0.54
>
> John Clark.
Hi John,

The "dependency" on Apache and other modules is probably my fault.  Way 
back when I did the original work to include these, the brief was to 
"build the LAMP stack" and make it foolproof.  I can't recall if there 
are any direct dependencies (there may be on some kind of http 
server?).  Anyhow the flexibility could be improved, but it's not 
something I have time to look at currently.

So far as libdb goes, in the Open Source ltib, the default is libdb1.  
The reason this is used is to avoid the accidental use of the viral 
licenses used in the later versions.  However having said that, I just 
build the LAMP stack on the current version of LTIB and it doesn't seem 
to use libdb at all:  Here's the packages I build on an ARM ep93xx 
platform with the default config + selecting PHP:

$ ./ltib -m  listpkgsbuild
Package                     License    Description
fake-provides-1.0-5         GPL    Fake provides to satisfy package 
dependancies
kernel-2.6.15-1             GPL    Linux kernel (core of the Linux 
operating system)
skell-1.19-3                GPL    Skelleton files for an embedded root 
filesystem
dev-1.1-1                   GPL    Device files for a small embedded system
base_libs-1.2-1             LGPL    Base Libraries (from toolchain).
busybox-1.11.2-1            GPL    A small executable that replaces many 
UNIX utilities
ntpclient-2003_194-1        GPL    Synchronizes system time using the 
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
libtermcap-2.0.8-31_1       LGPL    A basic system library for accessing 
the termcap database.
zlib-1.2.3-2                zlib (Distributable)    zlib compression 
utilities and libraries
ncurses-5.3-1               Distributable    CRT screen handling and 
optimization package
dropbear-0.52-1             MIT    Dropbear SSH server and client (embedded)
expat-1.95.8-1              MIT/X Consortium License    XML 1.0 parser
libxml2-2.7.2-0             MIT    Libraries, includes, etc. to develop 
XML/HTML applications
httpd-2.0.54-0              Apache (distributable)    Widely used Apache 
HTTP (web) Server
mysql-4.1.12-0              GPL    MySQL SQL database, client programs 
and shared library
php-5.0.4-0                 PHP (distributable)    The PHP HTML-embedded 
scripting language.
sysconfig-1.2-2             GPL    System configuration package
merge-0.1-1                 GPL    Merge files for an embedded root 
filesystem
modeps-1.0-1                GPL    Generate module dependency file

Regards, Stuart