[mapserver-users] Mapscript/PHP not compatible with PHP4 in Debian Woody

[Daniel Morissette]

Paul,

As mentioned by Antti R. in a previous message, PHP MapScript won't work
anyway in PHP compiled as a module because of thread-safety issues, so
you are forced to recompile PHP as a CGI anyway.  

However, I have to admit that this system regex thing had fallen into a
crack, but since it seems to become a more serious issue now for several
users I've added it as a bug in the MapServer bugzilla to make sure it
gets addressed eventually:
  http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=156

Daniel



Paul Baker wrote:
> 
> I'm working on the debian package for mapserver 3.6 and I'm running into
> a small snag. Debian's PHP4 package is built using php's bundled regex.
> So it looks like I won't be building a debian package of mapserver that
> includes Mapscript/PHP. :-( Is there any chance that this is going to be
> resolved? I doubt I could convince the Debian PHP maintainers to switch
> to using the system regex.
> 
> checking for location of config.h or php_config.h... /usr/include/php4/main/php_config.h
> checking whether we have PHP3 or PHP4... -DPHP4
> checking whether we should use PHP's regex... yes
> configure: error:
> !!! The current version of PHP MapScript has some problems with      !!!
> !!! PHP4's bundled regex.  Until we figure the solution to the       !!!
> !!! problem, the workaround is to compile PHP4 with the system regex !!!
> !!! Please re-configure and re-compile PHP4 with --with-system-regex !!!
> !!! and then re-configure and re-compile MapServer.                  !!!
> make: *** [config.status] Error 1
> 
> --
> Paul Baker