While looking for ways to package HipHop for Debian, I came across Mike
DuPont's git repository (
https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/hiphop-php/) that
he had started in January '10, but abandoned because of an apparent lack
of interest from the HipHop developers.
I picked up where he left off but hit a wall when I tried to get the
Debian or upstream developers for curl and libevent to accept the HipHop
packages (see
http://bugs.debian.org/638359 and
http://bugs.debian.org/638360).
At that point, I contacted Mike and asked for his help. He suggested we
attempt to get HipHop compiled *without* the patches since the upstream
developers weren't too enthusiastic about them.
He managed to get a working compiler and I'd like to get additional
testing done on it before I submit the work to Debian. Following is a
copy of the email he tried to send to wikitech-l earlier today.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:16 PM
Subject: Progress made on packaging hiphop for debian
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I have been working on packaging hiphop php for debian without any
patched libevent and curl, now have a basic package that can install the
compiler. working on getting the runtime sorted out, any help would be
appreciated.
note, this is working with the branch "official" not "master" I will
have to clean that up.
git checkout official
dpkg-buildpackage should produce a deb that builds and a compiler that
produces code, the runtime as I said needs work.
mike
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James Michael DuPont
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