[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: libmbfl

Wed Mar 28 16:38:46 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 28/03/12 13:46 did gyre and gimble:
+> '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!
+
+Rebuilding PHP did not help.
+
+We need to revert this ASAP or find a way to fix PHP to be compatible
+and find out which other packages may be broken as a result.
+
+Col
+
+
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