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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:14:21 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Problem with CVS
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

At 09:56 AM 8/30/2003 -0400, Rob Richards wrote:
>From: Andi Gutmans
> > Ouch. Now the question is how do we solve this? Do we make ./configure
>bail
> > out on such versions or do we hack something into PHP so that it doesn't
> > call this function more than once?
> > I really want to reduce the block size in my mem manager from 256KB to
>16KB
> > but I can't do it right now because it kills PHP quicker (it will die in
> > any case but it will take longer).
>
>Do you know what happens if another apache mod were to be using libxml
>(there are some)? Would they be sharing the same space as in, if the other
>mod were to change libxml globals, would that affect the libxml globals
>within the php scope? I believe they would clash but dont know for sure.

They probably would.

>If so, then libxml 2.5.8 would have to be marked bad unless you can also
>know when the other mods call their cleanup. This is a 2.5.8 issue only as
>it was introduce in that version and fixed in 2.5.9.

Can someone who knows configure well please add a check and bail out on 2.5.8?

Thanks,

Andi