Cannot build php-cgi package

Question

I need to build php-cgi with a certain compile option.
After searching the Arch site, I decided that I needed to install ABS and modify the PKGBUILD file for php-cgi.
I discovered that there is no php-cgi directory in /var/abs/..., so I looked in /var/abs/php/PKGBUILD. I found this at the beginning of PKGBUILD:
pkgbase=php
pkgname=('php'
         'php-cgi'
         [SNIP]...
         'php-xsl')
So I tried: makepkg -d --pkg php-cgi
(I had to add "-d" or the build would quit for dependencies that are not really necessary)
I thought this would look the same as doing pacman -S php-cgi. But it was quite different.
At first, makepkg tried to compile all the packages in the PKGBUILD file. It wanted me to install "dependencies" that I don't want. That's why I added the "-d" option.
I got all kinds of messages that don't happen when I just run pacman. I had to install some packages that the simple pacman command didn't require (such as curl).
Eventually it aborted with "cannot find enchant". I don't know where to go from here.
So what am I doing wrong? How do I compile and install php-cgi without getting all the messages? Why do I have to turn off dependencies?

Answer 1

oksofar wrote:
I see that I should have posted this topic in the "PKGBUILDs & ABS Support" forum. I should probably remove it from this forum and repost.
If so, how do I do that?
thanks.
Done