Andrew Bidochko

Today I was working on PHP upgrade on my servers. Basicaly I was moving everything from from php-5.1.x to php-5.2.x .

I was surprised to see ‘./configure’ error during PHP installation process:

configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.

After taking a closer look at configure.log I had more details:

gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory.

To resolve that problem I simply installed gcc-c++

yum install "gcc-c++"

It helped.

Interesting discussion about PHP frameworks is going on today. Programmers release more and more new “frameworks” nowadays. And I’m wondering why… What’s a difference between frameworks A, B and C? Why do we need yet another PHP framework?

Looks like developers have no true understanding what it takes to build a quality framework, build a community of users around such a framework and actually support and improve framework. I had experience doing that job building XYZ framework and I’ll tell you, its tough one.