PHP – Upgrading v5.2.5 to v5.2.8
Background Knowledge
The following is the process I took to upgrade a web server with PHP v5.2.5 to PHP v5.2.8 running on OpenBSD. PEAR is already installed on this system and up to date. I wasn’t sure if I should exclude PEAR at install or not so therefore did not tell the configurator to exclude PEAR at install.
Installation Process
- Download the latest stable PHP release from command prompt # wget http://ca.php.net/get/php-5.2.8.tar.gz/from/a/mirror
- # tar -zxvf php-5.2.8.tar.gz
- ./configure –with-mysql=/usr/local –with-mssql=/usr/local –with-apxs –with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib –with-config-file-path=/var/www/conf –with-iconv=/usr/local/bin/iconv –enable-exif –enable-mbstring –enable-calendar
- # make
- # make test
- # make install
- # make clean
As far as I could tell in the PHP 5 ChangeLog since at least PHP v5.2.5 there has not be any changes made to the php.ini configuration file. Therefore I chose to leave the PHP configuration file (php.ini) that was being used with PHP v5.2.5 for PHP v5.2.8.
Issues
- At configure I received the following message “checking for a sed that does not truncate output… (cached) /usr/bin/sed
expr: syntax error ./configure[2322]: test: 0: unexpected operator/operand expr: syntax error ./configure[2337]: test: 0: unexpected operator/operand”
I’m not sure what to make of this error message. I tried to search on Google but was not successful finding any answers. I tested my PHP installation and all appears to be okay. If anyone knows what exactly this error means and how to resolve it please let me know.
