I can see several benefits to its presence in the output:
1) educational
2) as a starting point for a new PHP compilation ... basically get that line, modify what you need and you'll be able to recompile PHP
Below a sample output from a CentOS 5 installation:
I can see several benefits to its presence in the output:
1) educational
2) as a starting point for a new PHP compilation ... basically get that line, modify what you need and you'll be able to recompile PHP
Below a sample output from a CentOS 5 installation:
# php -i
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 5.1.6
System => Linux localhost. localdomain 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 07:39:04 EST 2010 i686 i686-redhat- linux-gnu' '--host= i686-redhat- linux-gnu' '--target= i386-redhat- linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr' '--exec- prefix= /usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir= /usr/sbin' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir= /usr/share' '--includedir= /usr/include' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir= /usr/libexec' '--localstatedi r=/var' '--sharedstated ir=/usr/ com' '--mandir= /usr/share/ man' '--infodir= /usr/share/ info' '--cache- file=.. /config. cache' '--with-libdir=lib' '--with- config- file-path= /etc' '--with- config- file-scan- dir=/etc/ php.d' '--disable-debug' '--with-pic' '--disable-rpath' '--without-pear' '--with-bz2' '--with-curl' '--with- exec-dir= /usr/bin' '--with- freetype- dir=/usr' '--with- png-dir= /usr' '--enable- gd-native- ttf' '--without-gdbm' '--with-gettext' '--with-gmp' '--with-iconv' '--with- jpeg-dir= /usr' '--with-openssl' '--with-png' '--with-pspell' '--with- expat-dir= /usr' '--with- pcre-regex= /usr' '--with-zlib' '--with-layout=GNU' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable- magic-quotes' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-sysvsem' '--enable-sysvshm' '--enable-sysvmsg' '--enable- track-vars' '--enable- trans-sid' '--enable-yp' '--enable-wddx' '--with-kerberos' '--enable- ucd-snmp- hack' '--with- unixODBC= shared, /usr' '--enable- memory- limit' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-calendar' '--enable-dbx' '--enable-dio' '--with- mime-magic= /usr/share/ file/magic. mime' '--without-sqlite' '--with- libxml- dir=/usr' '--with-xml' '--with- system- tzdata' '--enable- force-cgi- redirect' '--enable-pcntl' '--with- imap=shared' '--with-imap-ssl' '--enable- mbstring= shared' '--enable- mbstr-enc- trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--with- ncurses= shared' '--with-gd=shared' '--enable- bcmath= shared' '--enable- dba=shared' '--with-db4=/usr' '--with- xmlrpc= shared' '--with- ldap=shared' '--with-ldap-sasl' '--with- mysql=shared, /usr' '--with- mysqli= shared, /usr/lib/ mysql/mysql_ config' '--enable- dom=shared' '--with- dom-xslt= /usr' '--with- dom-exslt= /usr' '--with- pgsql=shared' '--with- snmp=shared, /usr' '--enable- soap=shared' '--with- xsl=shared, /usr' '--enable- xmlreader= shared' '--enable- xmlwriter= shared' '--enable-fastcgi' '--enable- pdo=shared' '--with- pdo-odbc= shared, unixODBC, /usr' '--with- pdo-mysql= shared, /usr/lib/ mysql/mysql_ config' '--with- pdo-pgsql= shared, /usr' '--with- pdo-sqlite= shared, /usr' '--enable- dbase=shared'
Build Date => Jan 13 2010 17:05:38
Configure Command => './configure' '--build=