Posts Tagged ‘opensolaris’

DTracing PHP

Posted on December 20, 2008, 02:22, by dsp, under Open Source, PHP, Programming.

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 …

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Compiling PHP under OpenSolaris

Posted on September 30, 2008, 02:17, by dsp, under PHP, Programming.

As I switched my main system recently from Linux to OpenSolaris I compiled PHP. Quiet obvious things are a little bit different on Solaris. The usual ./buildconf && ./configure && make install doesn’t work anymore. The good news: It’s not much harder. Let’s start to get the prequisites:

~$ su
~# pkg install SUNWgm4 SUNWaconf SUNWgmake …

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