Re: [Request for Comment] Loading dynamic libraries with cross dependencies.

Morning all, FWIW, I wouldn't mind improvements in this area (apcu and the apc bc layer suffer from this). Anything from a better error message, all the way to removing the necessary load order limitation would be nice. Cheers Joe On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Sara Golemon wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 5:47 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > >> The average PHP extension is dependent only on the PHP runtime it was > > >> built for and probably one or more 3rd party libraries. However, a > > >> special class of extensions (such as PDO drivers and much of the XML > > >> family) have dependencies on other PHP extensions which may (or may > > >> not) be preset at the time they are loaded in via ini settings and/or > > >> dl(). > > > > > > See also: > > > https://derickrethans.nl/undefined-symbol.html > > > > > Exactly! The same underlying issue at work. > > > > Would I be correct in assuming there's a desire to resolve this issue? > > Or are we considering "know your dependencies and configure for them" > > to be enough? > > Getting this addressed would certainly be great. For the MongoDB > extension we've worked around it so that we can at least show a > reasonable error message though. > > cheers, > Derick > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >