Confused about installing PHP5 cli

[Panagiotis Atmatzidis]

On 14 Ιουλ 2009, at 11:00 ΜΜ, mrbigpants wrote:

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>
> Ryan Schmidt-24 wrote:
>>
>>> There is PHP4 at /usr/local/bin (came w/ OSX, I think)
>>
>> Apple does not supply any software in /usr/local;
>>
>
> I misspoke. There is a php binary in /usr/bin, which I assume came  
> w/ OS X.
> Should I reorder the paths in my PATH environment variable so that
> /opt/local/bin comes before /usr/bin? What's the best way to handle  
> this?
>
> Thanks.
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Greetings,

actually the way that makes sense for the user is, as you noted,  
adjusting the path in your .bash_profile.

Here is mine:

devo:~ atma$ cat .bash_profile
#atma's profile options
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
export MANPATH=/opt/local/share/man:$MANPATH

The $PATH variable in the end is the system's predefined. This way the  
user will use the binary in /opt/local/bin rather then /bin.

However for a system-wide configure you should use (let's say for  
python):

devo:~ atma$ ls /usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python
devo:~ atma$ which python
/opt/local/bin/python
devo:~ atma$ sudo mv /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/ 
python.old.version_name_here
devo:~ atma$ sudo ln -sf /opt/local/bin/python /usr/bin/python


And the system-wide python would be the 1st one. However, I can't be  
sure that this method will not cause troubles (that's why I choose not  
to erase the original python binary).
It's better though, when using configuration files to give absolute  
path to the binary you want to use, to avoid any envinroment issues.

regards


Panagiotis (atma) Atmatzidis

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