Hello Mauri, > > I feel it would be nice if these RPM's and libmhash would be included in > > the core distribution, so PHP can be built with support for libmcrypt and > > libmhash, as fe SUSE already does. > There is a nice tool called Checkinstall that can be used to build rpm, apt > or Slackware whatever from almost anything that installs via make install. I'll have a look at it. > More detailed instructions for compiling PHP-modules without compiling > the full PHP can be found from a file named > "README.SELF-CONTAINED-EXTENSIONS" inside the source distribution of > PHP. Right. Thanks for that pointer. > Sometimes it pays to read the documentation but I agree, there should be > "official" PHP-modules for mcrypt and mhash and "official" mcrypt-package. Reading docs is fine, but sometimes it's just nice to get to something and have some ad hoc answers spoon fed to you :-) . By the way, do you have any idea where the libmcrypt-idea tarball that is included in the SUSE srpm comes from? It is not available via http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrypt . Not sure if SUSE got it from there originally, and whether it was removed for some reason... Based on comments from Michael Schwendt I made some fixes to the rpm's at http://www.ottolander.nl/opensource/mcrypt/mcrypt.html , most notably I added a %defattr so the files are now owned by root after installation ;). Bye, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research
