[Mageia-dev] PHP treadsafe

Fri Jan 11 11:21:52 CET 2013

'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
+
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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