[Mageia-dev] Freeze push: libmbfl

Wed Mar 28 16:57:35 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and David Walser at 28/03/12 14:17 did gyre and gimble:
+> --- 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!
+> 
+> You should have seen the state the SVN for it was in, it was a real mess.
+
+Oh I can believe that :D
+
+> Rebuilding PHP should be sufficient.
+
+It didn't help. Perhaps it's PHP us using internal headers but system
+lib? Therefore it's compiling against a different version than it's
+being used against?
+
+Dunno, not poked hard. I downgraded to the old lib and rebuilt locally
+and it worked again.
+
+Either way, removing functions without bumping .so major is a pretty big
+ABI break....
+
+Col
+
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