Bug #70142 [Ver]: Default extension directory is absolute instead of relative

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70142&edit=1 ID: 70142 Updated by: ab@php.net Reported by: mgcummings at yahoo dot com Summary: Default extension directory is absolute instead of relative Status: Verified Type: Bug Package: Dynamic loading Operating System: Windows 7 PHP Version: 7.0.0beta2 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: IMHO there were no win changing current situation. For one - c:\php in the path recommended through all the documentation, many systems are likely to depend on this already. But not only - the configure/build scripts are bound to it, too ... fe nmake install will push to c:\php. Besides that - relative paths are in general useless, fe Apache will do chdir to its root dir, having a relative path in php.ini would cause other bug tickets. Same on Linux. The best solution is just to always use an absolute path. Any Linux distribution will do it, Windows users have a bit more effort because there's no good appreach to retain with the UNIX FS hierarchy. So we basically win nothing exchanging one for another. I'd rather set this to no bug. Thanks. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-07-27 17:23:29] cmb@php.net This is not a regression bug. extension_dir has always defaulted to an absolute path on Windows[1]. It occurs to me that it would make sense to change that, though, at least for the distributed binaries. [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.6.11/win32/build/config.w32.h.in#L18> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2015-07-26 23:50:38] mgcummings at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ Install PHP 7 anywhere without setting extension_dir option in php.ini and using extension=example.dll and php reports it can't find extension in c:/php/example.dll. Per the comments in the included example php.ini files and the default with past versions the built-in default should be a relative path of "./ext/" on Windows which match the actually location in the build. It is also clear that an absolute path is being used for the default as well since the actual path to my install is d:/php7.0/beta2/ meaning it should be looking in d:/php7.0/beta2/ext/ for the DLLs. Test script: --------------- echo %PATH% php.exe --version Expected result: ---------------- Not report missing extension DLLs. Actual result: -------------- D:\php-7.0\beta2;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'C:\php\php_bz2.dll' - The specified module could not be found. in Unknown on line 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70142&edit=1