Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:11814 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34246 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Aug 2004 08:55:32 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34156 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2004 08:55:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jdi.jdimedia.nl) (212.204.192.51) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 2 Aug 2004 08:55:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i728tV92028196 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:55:31 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i728tRZi028179; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:55:27 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:55:27 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Joe Orton cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <20040723211815.GB15309@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20040723211815.GB15309@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdimedia.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] fix symbol namespace pollution from bundled libgd From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Joe Orton wrote: > Building the bundled libgd library into PHP causes symbol namespace > pollution; if any other Apache modules link a different version of libgd > into the Apache process they may instead pick up symbols from the PHP > libgd, and segfault randomly. (One of our users saw this when using > mod_perl with Perl::GD) Hmm, I don't really like this "hiding" of symbol names. Why just not fix our bundled GD to use the correct names? regards, Derick