Re: Debian PHP patches
| From: | Gwynne Raskind | Date: | Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:14:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Debian PHP patches | ||
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On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>> Can you tell me what exactly we are breaking? divert calls should only be
>> used internally by autoconf and the, apparently useless, usage of them in
>> php makes it fail to build with any other autoconf.
> If you remove them, things break. I don't remember right now why, but it did, Rasmus tried
> this already and failed. Search the mailing lists for more. His commit message is a bit weird, I
> think it should say "2.6x is broken in so many ways" rather than 2.13:
>
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=291414
If I remember right, removing the diverts makes the ./configure --help output no longer pretty. And
2.6x and 2.13 are both broken in their own lists of ways. Though I thought the use of high-numbered
diversions was actually a supported thing - or was that only in 2.13?
-- Gwynne