Before the world changed I had a little program which was run from shell_exec to modify the ID3 tags of MP3 files of some talks stored on the server. I put the source in a directory and (again in the old days) telnetted into the CCGI platform and ran a make to build the executable. Its been working fine for several years.
However, in our brave new world, the old executable is now complaining about a C++ library incompatibility. Needs a rebuild. SO how do I do that now with no telnet access? Aha, put the make command in a shell_exec from a PHP script. No joy, "make not found" 😞
So, is GCC and friends still available on the platform? If so where? Do I need to specify a fully qualified path? ( there's nothing useful in /bin ) How can I re-build my program. Not having telnet access makes it a nightmare trying to figure out what may and may not work.
I know the alternative is to do the mp3 tag update client side. i.e download it, change the tags and re-upload it, but that is very messy and would need a good deal of new script development.
Any ideas on how to get it to work as before?
Mike
