Re: CLI/CGI -z command line options is broken

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025, at 3:24 PM, Niels Dossche wrote: > Hi internals > > We received a bug report (https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17740) > that the -z command line option for CLI/CGI doesn't > actually work. > This option is supposed to load a zend extension using a command line > argument. > However, it turns out that the extension doesn't actually load: PHP > will claim that the extension's loaded (in some places), but in reality > it never loaded properly. > I did an analysis of why this is happening in that GitHub thread, and a > clean solution isn't straight-forward. > Christoph figured out that this option has been broken since at least > PHP 5.5, a long time. > As passing -d zend_extension=foo on the command line is already > a > suitable replacement, we'd like to just remove the -z > option in PHP > 8.5 instead of fixing it. > > Are there any objections against this? Please let us know. > > Kind regards > Niels Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps update the -d help text accordingly, if needed? --Larry Garfield