Re: Use fsock.c from my module

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Sam Liddicott wrote: > In order to keep my network interface portable I thought it better to write > using fsock.c and require that sockets be enabled for php. > > Is this advisable? > > In my config.m4 how do I check that --enable-sockets is active? > > In my config.m4 how do I cause to be defined somewhere one of the PATHS > calculated by config.m4 - in order that my C module knows the compile time > paths as defaults for other things. > > > Thanks > > Sam > This makes your code portable across operating systems, but not across PHP installations. IIRC, there have been plenty of cases where sockets don't compile correctly but aren't needed anyway; your extension would be completely unusable in these cases. AFAIK the right way to do portability, unfortunately, is to go through all the #ifdef loops. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>