On Nov 10, 2006, at 15:30, Samuel V Green III wrote:
I found a solution to my posted error and am posting what "works for me" incase there is someone experiencing the same error with the (variant +postgresql) option added to a php5 build via macports.
I am doing this on a Mac (PowerBook). With a freash install of Tiger (10.4.8) with MacPorts version 1.320.
I examined the INSTALL notes in the source package of PostgresSQL 8.1.5. In the notes you will find, "It is recommended to use (gmake) version 3.76.1 or later." Via MacPorts I then installed gmake : # sudo port -v install gmake This results in a port install of GNU Make 3.81. I then again tried to build Php5 with the variant +postgresql option and still got the error.
From here I saw two choices: a.) Build from source via - http://www.postgresql.org/download/ b.) Install the binary package of PostgreSQL offered by Marc Liyanage at: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/postgresql/
I choose option "b.)" and modified the php5 Portfile to reflect the reflect the Marc Liyanage package install before I attempted my next port php5 build and install:
variant postgresql { configure.args-append --with-pgsql=/usr/local/bin\ --with-pdo-pgsql=/usr/local/bin }
The build and install of php5 finally completed without any errors. php5 @5.2.0_0+apache2+darwin_8+macosx+mysql5+postgresql+snmp (active)
Another reason I choose the package installation is because of the pgsql-startupitem-1.2.pkg. It installs a great "auto start" process that works well.
Hope some of this helps someone attempting to browse the list looking for a possible solution or "work around" to the variant +postgresql option added to a port install of php5.
You should not have to reach to anything outside of MacPorts to make this work. If you do, that's a bug in a portfile that should be fixed. MacPorts's PostgreSQL also includes a launch services item which should be able to start the server at startup. With most ports, you would install the port with the "+server" variant. This applies to e.g. mysql5 and to the old postgresql8 port. However, the newer current postgresql81 port does not offer this; instead it seems you're supposed to install the postgresql81-server port instead. However, the php5 port variant "+postgresql" depends on the postgresql81 port, not the postgresql81-server port. Does this work together? How did the authors of the postgresql81- server port and the +postgresql variant of the php5 port intend these options to work together?