extension_path not used for zend_extension

Hi. I've just noticed that in spite of the documentation, one can (try to) load a zend_extension via a relative path. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.zend-extension <http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.zend-extension>the only thing preventing that from working is that the extension_dir isn't used searching for the lib. you can see that extension uses the extension_dir correctly: tyrael@devel-tyrael:~$ strace php -n -d extension=xdebug.so -v 2>&1|grep xdebug execve("/usr/bin/php", ["php", "-n", "-d", "extension=xdebug.so", "-v"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0 open("/usr/lib/php5/20090626/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 and zend_extension not, hence it cannot load the lib. tyrael@devel-tyrael:~$ strace php -n -d zend_extension=xdebug.so -v 2>&1|grep xdebug execve("/usr/bin/php", ["php", "-n", "-d", "zend_extension=xdebug.so", "-v"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0 open("/lib/tls/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/tls/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/tls/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/x86_64/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "Failed loading xdebug.so: xdebug"..., 96Failed loading xdebug.so: xdebug.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory if you have the lib in you LD path, or you set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it will obviously load the lib from the relative path. tyrael@devel-tyrael:~$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/php5/20090626/ strace php -n -d zend_extension=xdebug.so -v 2>&1|grep xdebug execve("/usr/bin/php", ["php", "-n", "-d", "zend_extension=xdebug.so", "-v"], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0 open("/usr/lib/php5/20090626/xdebug.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 so I think we should either make sure that the zend_extension is an absolute path, or we should use the extension_path and allow loading zend extensions without the need to screw around with the LD path. what do you think? Tyrael