Best way to install PHP 5.3 alongside MacPorts PHP 5.2

[Michael J. I. Jackson]

Hello all,

Can anybody tell me the best way to install PHP 5.3 (currently in
development) alongside a MacPorts install of PHP 5.2 on Apache? I'm having
two problems in particular.

1) I tried downloading and installing the PHP 5.3 snapshot to /usr/local
using the following ./configure:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-calendar --with-iconv=/opt/local
--enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-wddx --with-zlib=/opt/local
--with-libxml-dir=/opt/local --with-gettext=/opt/local --with-xml
--with-expat-dir=/opt/local --with-xmlrpc --enable-soap --enable-filepro
--enable-bcmath --enable-trans-sid --enable-mbstring --enable-dbx
--enable-dba --with-openssl=/opt/local --with-mhash=/opt/local
--with-mcrypt=/opt/local --with-xsl=/opt/local --with-curl=/opt/local
--with-pcre-regex=/opt/local --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local
--with-png-dir=/opt/local --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-pear
--with-freetype-dir=/opt/local --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr
--with-iodbc=/usr --with-apxs2=/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs
--with-mysql=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_www_php5/work/mysql5
--with-pdo-mysql=/opt/local/bin/mysql_config5
--with-mysql-sock=/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
--with-mysqli=/opt/local/bin/mysql_config5 --with-sqlite
--with-pdo-sqlite=/opt/local --enable-sqlite-utf8

This is basically the same ./configure my MacPorts install uses, but with a
different prefix. However, I get the following error during configure:

checking for specified location of the MySQL UNIX socket...
/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
checking for MySQL UNIX socket location...
/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock
configure: error: Cannot find MySQL header files under
/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_www_php5/work/mysql5.

Note that the MySQL client library is not bundled anymore!

So when I take out --with-mysql, it compiles and installs fine, but I don't
have the MySQL library.

2) Using the above method, the new Apache module overwrites the old module
(/opt/local/apache2/modules/libphp5.so). This is just fine for running just
5.3, but I don't want to use it all the time! I only want 5.3 as a
development version. Any help? Is there any way that I can install 5.3 so
that I can just put a different extension on files that I'd like to use it
for? .php53 maybe?

Thanks,

Michael
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