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Subject: Re: Extension dependency problems
From: andrei@gravitonic.com (Andrei Zmievski)

Anyone? Bueller?

Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> It seems that our PHP_ADD_EXTENSION_DEP() macro from acinclude.m4 does 
> not actually do any linking against the dependent extension despite the 
> comment in it:
> 
>   dnl Some systems require that we link $2 to $1 when building
> 
> The consequence of this is that if the dependent extension (like 
> igbinary.so) is not loaded and you try to load your depending extension 
> (like my memcached.so), you'll get an error:
> 
> php: symbol lookup error: 
> /usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/memcached.so: undefined symbol: 
> igbinary_serialize
> 
> I asked Wez and he said that the only way to fix it is to do the actual 
> linking which is what he proposed a while back. Any reason why it hasn't 
> been done?
> 
> -Andrei
> 
>