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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5 or 6?
From: info@adaniels.nl (Arnold Daniels)

Sure you're right. I always build the SAPI alone, which is the debian 
style. So in my mind this was always the case, but in fact it is not.
Anyway I think a '--libary-suffix' would do the trick nicely.

Best regards,
Arnold


Jani Taskinen wrote:
> It's actually not the only binary/script that is build.
> --program-suffix|prefix affect also phpize, etc. scripts names.
> And AFAIK, CLI binary is always build unless of course you disable it. :)
>
> Patches are welcome.
>
> --Jani
>
> Arnold Daniels kirjoitti:
>> When you build the Apache2 SAPI the only binary build is the module, 
>> so '--program-suffix' is unused. Anyway it doesn't have to be the 
>> same configuration option per say (though I don't see why not), but 
>> the method of specifying the suffix with configure is much handier 
>> than having it hard-coded in source. I've stated the reasons in the 
>> previous e-mail.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Arnold
>>
>>
>> Jani Taskinen wrote:
>>> Because it's --program-suffix and not --library-suffix.
>>>
>>> --Jani
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 11:29 +0200, Arnold Daniels wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Why isn't the Apache module appended with the same suffix as the 
>>>> other binaries (configuration option --program-suffix). It seems 
>>>> like the logical solution here. That way you can have any different 
>>>> versions if you want, but the default is just the overwrite.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Arnold
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>>> I'd rather not have my old libphp#.so file over-written when I 
>>>>>> install
>>>>>> a new version, in case things go horribly wrong and I want to just
>>>>>> roll-back...
>>>>>>         
>>>>> Then you have the same reason to worry right now - every php5 
>>>>> install from 5.0.0 to 5.2.3 overwrites libphp5.so.
>>>>>
>>>>>      
>>>>>> There was a time where one could have 2 php mod versions running at
>>>>>> once, as I recall, and having different filenames was kinda 
>>>>>> important,
>>>>>> eh?
>>>>>>         
>>>>> Well, there was a setting that kinda allowed that, but I'm not 
>>>>> sure it ever worked correctly - there are all sorts of symbol 
>>>>> clashes, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> On the other hand, you can happily run two (or a dozen :) PHP 
>>>>> versions right now - just install any FastCGI implementation, 
>>>>> compile two cgi-fcgi PHPs and install. Only thing you would need 
>>>>> to care about is to give them separate php.ini's and/or separate 
>>>>> extension directories.
>>>>>       
>>>
>>>   
>