PHP build dates wierdness

[iandid...@googlemail.com]

following on from a previous query

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.redhat/e8mq8ih_NKk

I found that I had two servers with differing levels of rpm. so I have now downgraded the higher level server to the lower level (so to speak - lower level is a production server so dev now replicated its rpm level).

However... phpinfo STILL reports radically different dates for build dates!

dev:Build Date May 3 2012 17:38:23
prod:Build Date Nov 13 2010 16:05:36

That dev build date was what it reported under the previous 5.1.6-34 rpm level installed.

Now - I also appreciate that somebody in the other thread IIRC said the build date was irrellevant as all that shows is what date the software was originally compiled and that all that matters is the version levels. BUT... the developers I deal insist PHP is the ONLY difference between the two servers so it HAS to be the level/whatever of PHP.

both systems have the same level of rpms as I mentioned...

dev:
# rpm -q -a | grep php
php-devel-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-common-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-xml-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-mysql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-odbc-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-ldap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-soap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3

prod:
# rpm -q -a | grep php
php-xml-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-common-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-soap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-ldap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-cli-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-mysql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3

The ONLY difference I see is that dev has two other php rpms installed

php-devel-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3
php-odbc-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3



Has anyone any idea why the build dates are showing such a difference given the above?

I am now totally desperate.

ian

[iandid...@googlemail.com]

sorry - restarted apache (DOH) and now build date on dev shows "Nov 29 2010 18:46:01 ".

still different build date tho...

ian