[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: libmbfl

Wed Mar 28 15:17:58 CEST 2012

--- On Wed, 3/28/12, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> From: Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>
+> Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: libmbfl
+> To: "Mageia development mailing-list" <mageia-dev at mageia.org>
+> Cc: "David Walser" <luigiwalser at yahoo.com>
+> Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 8:46 AM
+> 'Twas brillig, and David Walser at
+> 27/03/12 19:47 did gyre and gimble:
+> > It was updated for a security update in Mageia 1 but
+> was not updated in
+> > Cauldron, so it won't currently be updated when
+> upgrading to Mageia 2.
+> > 
+> > The new version fixes usage with PHP 5.3.9 and
+> newer.  I confirmed locally
+> > that it builds, installs, and works properly.
+> 
+> It also contains ABI breakage:
+> 
+> PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic
+> library
+> '/usr/lib64/php/extensions/mbstring.so' -
+> /usr/lib64/php/extensions/mbstring.so: undefined symbol:
+> mbfl_identify_encoding_no in Unknown on line 0
+> 
+> 
+> I will try rebuilding PHP, but really this is a broken
+> update!
+> 
+> Col
+
+You should have seen the state the SVN for it was in, it was a real mess.
+
+Rebuilding PHP should be sufficient.
+