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 -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org