[mapserver-users] php_mapscript with apache-php-dso

[Jan Hartmann]

  Hi folks,

I have compiled php-mapscript to run under a Linux Apache server with 
php installed as a dynamic module. My whole binary tree is under $HOME, 
and programs find their libraries via the environment variable 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Everything works beautiful with PHP installed as a CGI 
binary, but when PHP is installed as a module, Apache complains at 
startup that it cannot find the GDAL libraries. It *does* find the 
PHP-MapScript module, but that module tries to load GDAL, and that 
library isn't visible, although LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set in Apache's 
configuration with the SetEnv directive. Other local libraries, like 
PostgreSQL, are loaded without  any problem.

Things are fixed when I set the library environment in /etc/ld.so.conf 
and run the ldconfig command, but that can only be done by root. I want 
to create binary distributions that are completely on the user level, 
not needing any root access at all. Does anyone have a solution for this?

Jan