PCRE symbol visibility bug

When using GCC 4.x with php-5.3, and an extension (such as APC) that references PCRE functions (pcre_exec) that are bundled with PHP in the pcre extension. The symbols defined in the PHP binaries don't include a visibility "default" attribute, and are currently set to "hidden" in CFLAGS. This makes the symbols unavailable to any .so extension, which triggers a fault. It seems like adding the visibility attribute to the bundled PHP code should fix this, but I wanted to post here as perhaps someone has a better suggestion. It would probably be better if this didn't modify the pcrelib/* files. I've included a patch as a possible fix, I can go ahead and commit this if this is what we want, but I'm hoping someone has some other suggestions. before: shire@shirebook:/usr/local/apache/libexec$ nm which php | grep pcre_exec 000266b4 t _php_pcre_exec after: shire@shirebook:/usr/local/apache/libexec$ nm which php | grep pcre_exec 000266b4 T _php_pcre_exec cvs diff: Diffing . cvs diff: Diffing doc Index: pcre_internal.h =================================================================== RCS file: /repository/php-src/ext/pcre/pcrelib/pcre_internal.h,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.1.2.5.2.5 diff -u -r1.1.2.1.2.5.2.5 pcre_internal.h

--- pcre_internal.h     9 Sep 2008 07:55:08 -0000       1.1.2.1.2.5.2.5
+++ pcre_internal.h     9 Dec 2008 22:05:57 -0000

@@ -119,9 +119,17 @@

 #    endif

# else

 #    ifdef __cplusplus
-#      define PCRE_EXP_DECL       extern "C"
+#      if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 4
+#        define PCRE_EXP_DECL       __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) extern "C"
+#      else
+#        define PCRE_EXP_DECL       extern "C"
+#      endif
 #    else
-#      define PCRE_EXP_DECL       extern
+#      if defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 4
+#        define PCRE_EXP_DECL       __attribute__ ((visibility("default"))) extern
+#      else
+#        define PCRE_EXP_DECL       extern
+#      endif
 #    endif
 #    ifndef PCRE_EXP_DEFN
 #      define PCRE_EXP_DEFN       PCRE_EXP_DECL

-shire