[Mageia-dev] PHP treadsafe

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Friday, January 11, 2013 03:21:52 AM Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Spuhler at 08/01/13 14:25 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Tuesday, January 08, 2013 04:36:26 AM Oliver Burger wrote:
> >> Am 08.01.2013 11:04, schrieb Frederik Himpe:
> >>> On Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:20:35 -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> >>>> If nobody objects I am going to rebuild php treadsafe
> >>>> (--enable-maintainer-zts)
> >>>> it is needed for running apache with mpm-module-worker instead of
> >>>> prefork and php apache module worker is needed by 389-ds. It is now
> >>>> declared as stable.
> >>>> 
> >>>> But apache mpm-prefork starts with php compiled treadsafe apache
> >>>> mpm-worker doesn't start with php compiled none-treadsafe
> >>> 
> >>> You can run PHP with apache2-mpm-worker with mod_fcgid and php5-cgi or
> >>> php5-fpm.
> >>> 
> >>> This is what Debian Wheezy's README file for php says:
> >>> 
> >>> Using PHP 5 with threaded webservers (e.g. apache2-mpm-worker)
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> 
> >>>    After much back-and-forth with upstream (and even building our
> >>>    packages thread-safe for a while), we're currently admitting defeat
> >>>    on that front, and are NOT building any thread-safe versions of PHP
> >>>    5 for any webservers. Our recommendation is that, if you need to use
> >>>    a threaded webserver, you should use php5-fpm and interface to your
> >>>    webserver with FastCGI.
> >>> 
> >>> I think Mageia is hurting itself by enabling too experimental features.
> >>> Another example is the uas kernel module, of which I saw a complaint
> >>> recently in this mailing list. This module is known to be buggy, and
> >>> disabled in Debian.
> >> 
> >> +1
> >> 
> >> That's what Oden told me yesterday on IRC.
> >> 
> >> So as current php maintainer I vote against enabling this.
> >> 
> >> Oliver
> > 
> > I guess I then will revert it to NTS.
> > Fedora builds it with both options. But it may be too late now going that
> > way.
> 
> FWIW, over the last few days I've had to rebuild several PHP modules to
> get my system working properly.
> 
> A couple days ago I had to rebuild both php-memcached and php-redis.
> 
> Today I've had to rebuild php-memcached, php-redis and php-timezonedb.
> 
> I'm not against enabling features etc. to try them out but when doing so
> care really should be taken to rebuild all affected PHP modules not just
> the core ones.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Col
Why did you have to rebuild them as a result of the new features? TS has been reverted to NTS so, 
there are no new features.
-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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