How to compile php with all options on ubuntu

Question

I installed LAMP on ubuntu. But it has only basic setting with php. i want to recompile php with all options

HOw can i recompile php using /configure

I used to compile and build using cpanel easy apache . it has all the options and i usually checked that.

Now i have the full command text of cpanel php build which i want to use

'./configure' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-libxml' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-pdo=shared' '--enable-soap' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-zend-multibyte' '--enable-zip' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--with-curl=/opt/curlssl/' '--with-curlwrappers' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-gd' '--with-gettext' '--with-imap=/opt/php_with_imap_client/' '--with-imap-ssl=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-kerberos' '--with-libdir=lib64' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2' '--with-libxml-dir=/opt/xml2/' '--with-mcrypt=/opt/libmcrypt/' '--with-mhash=/opt/mhash/' '--with-mime-magic' '--with-mm=/opt/mm/' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' '--with-openssl=/usr' '--with-openssl-dir=/usr' '--with-pdo-mysql=shared' '--with-pdo-sqlite=shared' '--with-pgsql=/usr' '--with-pic' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-sqlite=shared' '--with-ttf' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr'

Can i just copy and paste that and it will gave me the same option as php build by cpanel

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install package1 package2 package3 and so forth will allow you to perform multiple package installs at once so that you don't have to use this roundabout fashion of avoiding one-by-one package installs.

Answer 2

Why are you compiling php? Is there something wrong with the php that you can install from the Ubuntu repositories? Unless there's a very good reason to install from source, you'll save yourself many headaches going forward by just installing as many packages as possible via synaptic/apt-get/etc.

If you need additional modules for php, nearly all that you may need are available in the apt repositories.

What specific modules do you require?