UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming MySQL and Server Configuration Installing Linux apps in general

Isn't the usual procedure for installing a linux app is to

make
make test
make install

when you have the source code? I'm asking specifically for installing php (with perl, you usually have to do a perl makefile.pl first - do you have to do the equivalent with php?).

Thanks!

- Six
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mYth productions

Take a look at this site :

http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/wicked187/lamp.phtml

(Linux Apache mySQL php)

Tells you how to install and compile apache, php, and mySql from source. Hope this helps.

= Jim =

Edited by aantix on 03/10/01 08:09 PM.

you will not need perl Makefile.PL for most apps, that's normally for perl modules.

You'll usually need a ./configure [--options] before make and make install. There usually isn't a make test for anything other then perl modules.

Always read the README or INSTALL file.