Newsgroups: php.internals
Path: news.php.net
Xref: news.php.net php.internals:98408
Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm
Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pthreads.org from 74.125.82.67 cause and error)
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703041021180.5100@singlemalt.home.derickrethans.nl>
References: <CAESVnVqP6cprZ_2DfK_hkc6_Ym_MSpP-9UZQk551RGoCTXuhUA@mail.gmail.com>
 <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703031146540.2489@singlemalt.home.derickrethans.nl>
 <CAESVnVqKk3b76fVHjPoYSpe-R4Jq8sdNyF_6XhXn6nt+2dzO5g@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.DEB.2.20.1703041021180.5100@singlemalt.home.derickrethans.nl>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:50:41 +0000
Message-ID: <CAL=_i_mo4nxp9Ra9+6ixDYmr2ve12=aesYG6HP0BWm06Oi8eSw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
Cc: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114d1f70150acb054a0cd427
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [Request for Comment] Loading dynamic libraries with
 cross dependencies.
From: pthreads@pthreads.org (Joe Watkins)

--001a114d1f70150acb054a0cd427
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

Morning all,

FWIW, I wouldn't mind improvements in this area (apcu and the apc bc layer
suffer from this).

Anything from a better error message, all the way to removing the necessary
load order limitation would be nice.

Cheers
Joe

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Sara Golemon wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:47 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> > >> The average PHP extension is dependent only on the PHP runtime it was
> > >> built for and probably one or more 3rd party libraries.  However, a
> > >> special class of extensions (such as PDO drivers and much of the XML
> > >> family) have dependencies on other PHP extensions which may (or may
> > >> not) be preset at the time they are loaded in via ini settings and/or
> > >> dl().
> > >
> > > See also:
> > > https://derickrethans.nl/undefined-symbol.html
> > >
> > Exactly!  The same underlying issue at work.
> >
> > Would I be correct in assuming there's a desire to resolve this issue?
> > Or are we considering "know your dependencies and configure for them"
> > to be enough?
>
> Getting this addressed would certainly be great. For the MongoDB
> extension we've worked around it so that we can at least show a
> reasonable error message though.
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>
> --
> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>

--001a114d1f70150acb054a0cd427--