RE: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] fix symbol namespace pollution from bundled libgd

> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Joe Orton wrote: > > > Building the bundled libgd library into PHP causes symbol namespace > > pollution; if any other Apache modules link a different version of libgd > > into the Apache process they may instead pick up symbols from the PHP > > libgd, and segfault randomly. (One of our users saw this when using > > mod_perl with Perl::GD) > > Hmm, I don't really like this "hiding" of symbol names. Why just not fix > our bundled GD to use the correct names? Is that actually the issue? How do you know which versions of libgd are being used by other projects? There was a positive response to Joe's patch initially (off-list). Is anyone planning to adapt it for 5_0 branch before the 5.0.1 release, is it going to wait until 5.1, or is it now abandoned for some reason? Just wondering.. - Steph