New configure options in php 4.2.0 not mentioned in manual
| From: | Sukhwinder Singh | Date: | Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:07:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | New configure options in php 4.2.0 not mentioned in manual | ||
| Groups: | php.doc | ||
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Hello,
I downloaded PHP version 4.20 source and php manual in English dated 20 April 2002. But manual
is always not up to date. For example many new ../configure options are available and there is no
mention of these anywhere in the manual. Options like --with-tokenizer, --with-sablot-js,
--enable-mbregex and --enable-aggregate. There may be many more like using libxslt instead of
sablot. Even configure --help should mention which one of the two options cannot be used together.
There are many confusing options like --enable-xslt and --with-xslt-sablot and one doesn't know
whether both should be used to enable xslt support in php. More confusion is added by libxslt.
Difference between --with-xxx-dir --with-xxx=[DIR] also isn't clear.
Even if new extensions/configure options are experimental, there should be at least mention of
these options in manual topic which provides "Complete list of configure options" so that
others can know what a particular option does. Only then others can experiment with these options.
It won't take much time to add details of a particular option in two three lines. Although it
would have been better to also provide details of a functions available in a particular extension
etc.
Sukhwinder