[php-maint] Bug#612743: [PHP-DEV] Re: Bug#612743: php5: PHP is compiled with LFS support, but this can not be detected by extensions

Derick Rethans derick at php.net
Mon Aug 6 10:43:33 UTC 2012


On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Derick Rethans <derick at derickrethans.nl>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 13:37, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011, Derick wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I know it doesn't; I was asking for making it detectable. Perhaps
> > > >> instead of LFS, you could use DEBIAN as "ZEND_BUILD_EXTRA"
> > > >> instead then? Or perhaps include flags with that, that show all the
> > > >> different Debian flags/options/or perhaps a debian specific version nr
> > > >> as well; such as DEBIAN1, DEBIAN2 etc...
> > > >
> > > > Seems reasonable to me, but I am not sure if we don't break other
> > > > stuff by introducing this. But right now it's a right time to do it,
> > > > since the new development cycle has just started.
> > >
> > > I have tested your patch, but since this changes the ability to load
> > > existing modules, there's a need to plan a transition and coordinate
> > > it with the release team. It would probably also be good thing to
> > > coordinate this either with other major distributions (so the LFS flag
> > > is same everywhere) or move this logic directly to PHP upstream.
> >
> > Yes, that makes sense.
> >
> > > What do you (and other pkg-php maintainers) think? My guess would be
> > > that best solution would be to move this to upstream, so it's
> > > consistent even for local custom builds with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS == 64.
> >
> > I think this makes sense to me. Adding LFS to out ZEND_BUILDIN_EXTRA
> > stuff alongside with the ZTS and DEBUG flags makes a lot of sense.
> > I am cc-ing php internals here. As a reference, this is the issue:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612743
> 
> is this still something that we want to pursue?

Yes I think so!

cheers,
Derick

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