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PHP on aix..

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slag

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PHP is the devil, plain and simple. We are going through a vendor that uses php in its application and wants us to install it. Of course, they are using it on redhat and we use AIX instead, so they point us to some wikis to get it installed and configured...

yeah right.

I have a list a mile long of modules that need to be configured with php, yet for each one I download, it has 3 dependencies. Same with the GCC and C++ compiler. Try to install it and it whines that it needs 4 other files to work. Download one of those, and that file says it needs 3 other files to work.

This is madness.

Sure wish AIX had some sort of RPM tool that actually managed packages instead of just allowing you to download and install the rpms. PHP is such a hack job also anyway. You have to compile it to work with your system and modules instead of just downloading the binary you need with the feature set you need.

I'm done with it. Spent 3 days already trying to make it work and it wants me to install and update libraries and dependencies that other critical apps use. Um... no.. no thanks.

I cant potentially break a working app just so this language will work for one application.
 
PHP has many issues but I don't think it's build dependencies is one of them. Any project of sufficient size is going to have dozens of dependencies and it's likely each of those will also have a few dependencies. And modules are a good thing. If they didn't have separate modules your dependency list would likely be a lot longer and you'd be complaining about needing to download and compile things that you probably don't need, like PostgreSQL support.
 
Sounds like AIX is the problem, but I agree that PHP is a Frankensteinian mess and I'm still perplexed as to why it's so overwhelmingly popular.
 
Just install those librarys in a differnt path and let php know where they are at. It's not uncommon to have some duplication in /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib (not sure how AIX works though, never used it)
 
Just install those librarys in a differnt path and let php know where they are at. It's not uncommon to have some duplication in /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib (not sure how AIX works though, never used it)
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It's not uncommon but it's not recommended either because now you've got to follow two sets of libraries when watching for security patches.
 
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