Re: PHP7 releases vs Windows Sources?

On Mon, 2015-06-15 at 16:20 +0200, Christoph Becker wrote: > Hannes Magnusson wrote: > > > Then this fix doesn't make any sense -- you are saying if I download > > the .tar.gz and .zip and extract those two, I will have precisely the > > same sources? > > Then this fix should be reverted as there is isn't any special Windows > > Sources and the official releases should work just fine. > > There is some difference (timestamps?) which causes building from the > tarred sources to fail on Windows (see bug #69829). "touching" generated files as part of the packaging process is a good idea for all platforms. > Furthermore > extracting the tarred sources with 7zip (which seems to be a pretty > common archiver) results in spurious PaxHeaders.##### directories, what > is bug in 7zip[1], and doesn't really affect the build, but is confusing > nonetheless (and requires more disk space). > > At least until these issue are solved, IMO it's better to link to the > "Windows" sources packaged as .zip. If there is a need for zip archives I'd put them next to tar.gz etc. and distribute them via our mirror network. johannes

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