Re: Fwd: Re: [PHP4BETA] SegFault with php4, mod_perl and mod_ssl

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I'd be very interested to hear if anybody has any creative ideas as to how > to solve this problem. This is definitely a FAQ, it seems like loads of > people are experiencing crashes due to MySQL incompatibilities, between the > local client linked with their PHP 3.0/mod_perl/mod_auth_mysql, and the > bundled MySQL library in PHP 4.0. > > If there was some way to detect it... I can't think of any way, but > perhaps someone here can? > > If there's nothing we can actively do about it, I guess we should add it to > the FAQ, and it may actually be important enough to add a note about this > at the final configure message. There is a technical solution which is completely backwards compatible. If the user specified --with-mysql without an argument, we currently always choose the embedded mysql client library. We can extend this mechanism to search again for MySQL in the standard locations. If it finds MySQL, we use the installed client library, otherwise the embedded client library gets used. - Sascha