macports is a widely used ports system for Mac OS. It’s repository contains hundreds of application that can be compiled and installed. The repository contains php 5.3. So if you want to run PHP from subversion you still have to compile it yourself and install it yourself outside your managed ports environment. I created …
For those not following the PHP development. We backported the DTraces probes from the abandoned PHP 6.0 branch, back to the new trunk PHP 5.3.99-dev. It is called 5.3.99 because the PHP dev community has not decided yet on a version number (5.4 or 6.0).
To compile PHP with DTrace, on Solaris or Mac OS …
Dtrace is an extremely flexible and powerful tool to trace and debug applications. I recently dtraced PHP a little bit, so here is a tutorial how to start dtracing PHP.
Prequisites
You need a dtrace capable operating system like Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X 10.5 or FreeBSD 7. I use dtrace on OpenSolaris 2008.11. You …