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Subject: PHP Extension - newbie question
From: gmclachl@cis.strath.ac.uk (George McLachlan)

Hi,
      I have been lurking on this list for a while, and this is my first 
post. Sorry it has to be such a daft question.  I don't even know if 
it's the right list, so my apologies in advance.

  I need to add mysqli support to a web server and our sys admin refuses 
to do anything unless it comes from a debian package. Anyway I thought 
it would be possible to compile PHP in a chroot enviroment with mysqli 
support and take the extension and use that on our servers.

I ran a simple
  ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql 
  --with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config --with-zlib --with-gd

However I can't seem to find the extension. I ran php-config 
--extension-dir but it points to a directory that doesn't exist.

The only good thing to come out of this, is that I now have an 
environment where I can easily test builds.

George