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Does rebuilding PHP from source rewrite config?

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:51 pm
by RobertGonzalez
If I were to rebuild my PHP installation from source with an added flag, would it rewrite the current complement of config flags that are in PHP? Does the fact that the current PHP install comes from the default Fedora Core installation have any potential impact on this?

I ask this because I literally need to know the possible outcome before doing it. Someone placed a production app on this test server before consulting us and if we blow up the test environment we blow up the production app (I know, that was a stupid thing to do, but hey, it's too late to fix that at the moment).

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:01 pm
by feyd
From my understanding, it won't overwrite any config files because they aren't there immediately after normal builds from what I've seen. If anything, it will overwrite the php.ini-recommended or whatever it's called.

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:03 pm
by volka
A backup is a good idea anyway.

Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:50 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Yeah, I am in the middle of that now. If I haven't mentioned it today, I hate Sybase. And anything Sybase related, especially if it is in conjunction with PHP. I need a beer.