Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:46231 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55185 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2009 13:44:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Nov 2009 13:44:42 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 95.31.13.88 xdmitri2.static.corbina.ru Received: from [95.31.13.88] ([95.31.13.88:11540] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id B4/31-48013-ACA721B4 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:44:42 -0500 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net References: <61.CB.44817.91D421B4@pb1.pair.com> <4B125D15.4040308@zend.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:44:39 +0300 Lines: 48 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Posted-By: 95.31.13.88 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php id string From: dmda@yandex.ru ("jvlad") "Jess Portnoy" wrote in message news:4B125D15.4040308@zend.com... > Hello, > > Have you considered cases such as universal MAC/Darwin builds? The > universal build method [used only by Apple but still, many PHP developers > do run MAC] means you have several archs bundled together in the same > binary, and, a binary built 2 ways [i386 and PPC or i386 and x86_64 or > even 4 ways for that matter] can work on any of these archs. How do you > suggest to handle that? > > May the source be with you, > Best regards, > Jess Portnoy > > > > jvlad wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Starting with version 5.3 php checks id string when it loads the >> extensions to match its own one and it also shows this string in PHP >> Extension Build line of phpinfo(). That's great. This line contains api#, >> threadsafe, and compiler. So it's almost all important thigs to check and >> make sure that a particular module is binary-compatible with php core. >> All things, except just one, the CPU. It's known that Windows runs on >> many CPUs, Solaris runs fine under sparc, sparc64, x86, and x86_64. >> Needless to mention linux and *bsd systems (I guess they are running on >> everything). Why not to add what phpinfo() shows in Architecture, to the >> id string? Are there any reasons not to do this? >> >> -jvlad >> >> >> Jess, I'm not sure that people who compile php under MAC will do unitversal binaries. At least by-default gcc does not produce them and seems an extra tool is required. Finally, if you have 4 binaries in one file, why don't you have 4 id-strings for them? -jvlad