Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> writes:
I have no information about PortAuthority. I assume it's supposed to be able to do every MacPorts command you can do from the command line, but I've never used it and you'll have to consult its documentation or its author if you have questions about it.
What you want is easy to do on the command line.
Do you want to run a MySQL 5 server on your iBook, or just get PHP 5 compiled with the MySQL 5 libraries so that you can connect to another MySQL 5 server running somewhere?
I assume you want to run a server yourself. To do so:
sudo port install mysql5 +server
(If you did not want a MySQL 5 server of your own, you can omit "+server".)
To get PHP 5 with MySQL 5 support and the Apache 2 libphp5.so module, and get the apache2 port installed as well:
sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5
To discover what variants a port has which might be interesting to you, do e.g.:
port variants php5
But the ui_msgs for php5 are still not right. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12108 So you might want to use these instructions in this NeDi howto. http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/NeDi-Howto.html Mark