Re: [PHP4BETA] cvs: /php4 Makefile.in configure.in.in

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote: > Either > > - create an external build process, i.e. setup something > like apxs which enables people to build shared modules > which are linked against an existing php4 library Yes, I think this would be the correct solution, but this needs a complete rework of the build system... > - use the `global: *' approach for versioning all shared > modules during the initial compile This wouldn't make it by itself, since external php4 symbols would not get version info. Anyway, this is needed in the first case to, so internal module symbols get versions... :) > > and why abs_srcdir is needed. > > From configure.in.in: > > abs_srcdir=(cd $srcdir; pwd) > ... > VERSION_SCRIPT="-Wl,--version-script=\$(abs_srcdir)/php.map" > > I don't see any compelling reason why you couldn't simply > substitute abs_srcdir directly. You set it to \$(srcdir), I just made it \$(abs_srcdir) analogously... of course it could be substituted directly :) Greg