Bug #15788 Updated: microtime.c compile failure

ID: 15788 Updated by: whit@transpect.com Reported By: whit@transpect.com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Compile Failure Operating System: Red Hat 6.0 (modified) PHP Version: 4.1.2 New Comment: If my system was truly broken, then editing the microtime.c file would not allow PHP to compile okay. Further, well up into the 4.x series PHP compiled fine on this same system. Expecting people to follow the Linux mailing lists for changes in the weight of opinion on whether Red Hat set up the 6.0 filesystem right, as compared to fixing PHP sources so that HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H is properly defined _even for systems like Red Hat 6.0, or the Slackware versions where PHP compilation presents a similar problem_ is the correct, right, decent and friendly thing to do. Short of that, the FAQ should present a either links to or a full description of the particular revision of the file system standard the PHP is unnecessarily trying to enforce. But the best solution is to make PHP compile successfully whether or not /usr/include is set up according to the latest fashion. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-28 13:17:46] jimw@php.net the faq is (was, after the recent checkin) wrong. /usr/include/linux should never be a symlink to kernel sources. this has been well-discussed on various linux mailing lists. if your system has symlinks from /usr/include to the kernel source tree, it is broken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-28 13:03:36] whit@transpect.com Yes, I know this bug was marked "bogus" before. And I know the FAQ says to make sure your symlink is right. But with the symlink set right, using kernel 2.4.16 (built from the tar), compilation chokes on this. This is not a good thing when you have a bunch of people trying to upgrade because of the security issue. (The symlink: /usr/include# ls -l linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 2 2001 linux -> ../src/linux/include/linux/) This is using gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release), also built from tar. Tried building the most recent version of glibc, but installing that was a serious mistake - breaking gcc among other things (if you make that mistake and have to revert to backup, be sure to restore or rebuild ld.so.cache first, without including it's files in /usr/local/include in ld.so.conf). Please let me suggest that the PHP team would better always check against compiles of recent kernels. On further attempt, the fix mentioned in the comments in the FAQ, of commenting lines in microtime.c as follows: /* #ifdef HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H */ #include <sys/resource.h> /* #endif */ does work (although I've also reverted to gcc-2.7.2.3 since the glibc fiasco still has an afteraffect). So this is a bug in PHP, not in the user's system (unless you want to argue that kernel 2.4.16 has a bug here). Please fix it. And please correct the FAQ build section to remove the bogus advice that the user's symlinks or glibc version are what needs to be fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=15788&edit=1