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Archive for January, 2005

compiling PHP with aspell support

I was banging my head against a brick wall trying to get aspell support working with PHP.

The php module make stage kept failing with errors like:

ld: ext/pspell/pspell.o illegal reference to symbol:
_aspell_error_number defined in indirectly referenced
dynamic library /usr/local/lib/libaspell.15.dylib

Turns out this is a known bug to do with aspell and php under OS X.

The fix is quite [...]

Converting man pages to text…

I've beeing using groff to nicely format man pages to plain text like so:

groff -mandoc -Tascii /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1 > man_ps.txt

but the problem is that you need to find the actual man page file, which adds another step to the process. This tip landed in my inbox the other day from the Unix Guru Universe Hot [...]

blojsom and Open Directory authentication.

You may have heard about the upcoming integration of blojsom in Tiger Server when it comes out.
I really like blojsom, and have been running it for a while now. It is far easier to administer for multi-user and multi-blog setups than anything else I've experimented with, and offers some awesome features.
Well, recently an LDAP authentication [...]