CentOS - Jul 2006 - RPM questions about trying to build php-ldap --with-ldap-sasl

Hello CentOS People,

I'm trying to build the php-5.0.4-5 subpackage 'php-ldap' from the
centosplus repo --with-ldap-sasl. Strangly the stock php-ldap package
is linked with libsasl2 et al but the ldap_sasl_bind PHP function
is not available which leads me to conclude that it was not built
--with-ldap-sasl.

To this end, can anyone help with the following questions:

1) The php-5.0.4-5.centos4.src.rpm builds 17 packages. Is there anyway
to instruct rpmbuild to only build 1 of those packages? Is there a way
to hack the php.spec to only build 1 package?

2) Is there a way to specify a configure option with rpmbuild? I know
PHP's configure accepts --with-ldap-sasl but trying to simply pass that
as an argument to rpmbuild does not work.

3) Where is config.log? After running rpmbuild it is nowhere to be found.

4) I suspect I will need to experiment with changing the .src.rpm contents
and rebuilding the package(s). However, because rpmbuild unpacks the
archive anew each time, it overwrites any changes I attempt to make. Is
there a way to instruct rpmbuild to build from an existing build dir?

Thanks,
Mike

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Michael B Allen
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hi,

Michael B Allen wrote:
> Hello CentOS People,
> 1) The php-5.0.4-5.centos4.src.rpm builds 17 packages. Is there anyway
> to instruct rpmbuild to only build 1 of those packages? Is there a way
> to hack the php.spec to only build 1 package?
not without redoing parts of the spec file. in most cases, its a waste
of time. just build the whole set and use that, or just use the
subpackages you need.

plus there is the chance that some of the sub-packages need / rely on
the main package / other sub-packages also being there..
> 
> 2) Is there a way to specify a configure option with rpmbuild? I know
> PHP's configure accepts --with-ldap-sasl but trying to simply pass that
> as an argument to rpmbuild does not work.
> 
do you have the required devel stuff installed ?  ( i havent actually
looked at the php binaries as yet, so cant confirm the options its built
with  )
> 3) Where is config.log? After running rpmbuild it is nowhere to be found.
depends on how far down the road you killed / dropped the rpmbuild
process - otherwise look in the BUILD directory under you rpm-build-tree.
> 4) I suspect I will need to experiment with changing the .src.rpm contents
> and rebuilding the package(s). However, because rpmbuild unpacks the
> archive anew each time, it overwrites any changes I attempt to make. Is
> there a way to instruct rpmbuild to build from an existing build dir?
make a patch, and incorporate that patch into the .spec file.

also, btw, 5.0.x tree of php got obsoleted yesterday in favour of
php-5.1.x, so you might want to try with that instead.

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