Re: Bug#44357: php3: zlib support breaks $PHP_INCLUDE_PATH [patch] (fwd)

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > Hello, > > I just got this report and patch in the debian BTS. Could you please > comment on it ? Sure. PHP interpreter (both apache module and standalone program) maintains an internal structure which holds all of the configuration variables (actually, it maintains two copies of this structure, but I'll simplify here - let me know if you need more details). This structure is filled with data from php3.ini file and/or from environment variables and should not be changed afterwards. However, the zlib "module" reinitializes some of the configuration variables, but takes only the ini file into account and disregards the environment vars. It seems that in the past it used its own private configuration structure but from some point it started to use the global php3 config structure. It uses the ZLIB_INI() macro to access this config structure. Nevertheless, the initialization code does not care of what structure is really used. The whole point of the patch is to skip the initialization of the config structure in case the (already initialized) global php3 structure is used. Note that the whole part of global/custom structure might be obsolete and can be completely removed. On the other hand, it might be still used for development purposes. You'll have to ask upstream about it. I just did the least necessary change to make things work without breaking anything. Patrik