By radiofranky2006 on

have anyone compiled his own PHP with dreamhost? can you share your experience?

just follow wiki.dreamhost installation instruction? what's pros and cons?

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dsafsdfasfsdfsdafaf’s picture

dsafsdfasfsdfsdafaf commented

As a current DreamHost employee, I must ask why you would need to do so when Drupal works just fine as is. I can really only think of cons, because the service will definitely not be as fast as our other PHP processes.

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benwei commented

Yes, I've done this in order to get imap support compiled into my PHP.

My recommendation:
Don't do it unless you're *really* sure you need to. And if you do need to, chances are that somebody else needs to as well, for the same reason -- so, put in a request in DH's request area for whatever extension you need.

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inafets commented

Hi there, benwei. I'm using dreamhost as well and trying to compile my own php because i need to get LDAP support.
How do you add those support? Correct me if i'm wrong, is it you add what features you want to install:

--with-ldap=${INSTALLDIR}/

under the:
# What PHP features do you want enabled?
PHPFEATURES="--prefix=${INSTALLDIR} \
...