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Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1-R-p10 and PHP 5.2.0
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On Friday 17 November 2006 17:03, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 01:22:13PM +0200, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > This is actually a known problem, documented on the PHP site.
> >
> > My nasty solution to deal with this is to have a "good" copy of
> > extensions.ini saved, and I just copy it over after each update. I
> > only need to modify it after adding or removing extensions.
>
> Can you provide the documentation to this known problem?
>
> Also, ale@, is this issue/known problem handled decently when
> installing a php5 extension via ports?  (It doesn't sound like it).
> It almost sounds like we need some additional framework to give
> each extension its own priority, thus when extensions.ini is edited,
> sorting the extensions loaded by their priority.

See:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.recode.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php

for a couple of examples, see the "warning" sections. There are probably 
others too, I haven't dug much further.


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