Re: [PHP4BETA] new configure approach

At 22:47 12/05/99 , Stig Bakken wrote:

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: From Zend's point of view, we don't want Zend alone to be installed separately from PHP. As we've mentioned numerous times in the past, only one thing is obvious about Zend's license, and it's that it's going to be freely distributable with PHP. We're not yet sure on whether or not it'll be distributed freely separately from PHP. It might, and it might not. Using armerge to create a library that contains both PHP and libzend may be a possible solution, even though it has little meaning in UNIX (you can still access all of Zend's functions and globals regardless of the PHP code). I'll have to talk to Andi about this too. The purpose of installing the libraries is just to clean up the build process a bit. Even if there is a file called libzend.a in /usr/local/lib, it's not really installed separately, it was done as part of the PHP instalation after all. Consider the changes I'm doing now as an experiment, just checking which approach that proves to be the most convenient.

I really don't want libzend to exist on UNIX systems as a separate part of PHP. People installing some UNIX distribution that will come with PHP 4.0 will see libzend as a standalone library, and I assume that the number of those people (essentially, most RH users) will be very large. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP 4 Beta