[Mageia-dev] PHP treadsafe

Tue Jan 8 15:25:42 CET 2013

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.
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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