Re: [Fedora-packaging] Packaging/PHP : some update proposal

[Remi Collet]

Remi Collet a écrit :
>  Here is some updates proposal for the
>  Guidelines for packaging PHP addon modules 
No comment ?
I'm waiting to push a php-pecl-zip update to FC5 & FC6
and i'd like to use new php-zend-api require.

>  
>  
>  1 ------ No file in  BUILD directory
>  
>  PEAR & PECL Packages
>  
>  The source archive contains a package.xml outside any directory, so you
>  should/must use
>  %setup -q -c
>  
>  2 ----- Initial spec.
>  
>  PEAR Packages
>  
>  To create your specfile, you could use the default template provided by
>  rpmdevtools or generate one with  the command "pear make-rpm-spec
>  Sources.tgz" (install php-pear-PEAR-Command-Packaging)
>  
>  3 ---- API version check
>  
>  PECL Packages
>  
>  
>  With php-5.1.6-3.3 on FC6 and php-5.2.0-8 on rawhide php-common now
>  provide php-zend-api.
>  This exact version must be require by pecl extension.
>  
>  The php-common in Fedora Core 7 and above (version 5.2.0-8) provides
>  several useful macros:
>  
>  %{php_core_api}
>  %{php_zend_api}
>  %{php_pdo_api}
>  
>  
>  Solution 1 (using the macros, only available on rawhide)
>  
>  %if %{?php_zend_api}0
>  Requires: php_zend_api = %{php_zend_api}
>  %endif
>  
>  Solution 2 (not using the /etc/rpm/macros.php)
>  
>  %global php_zendapi  %((echo 0; php -i 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/^PHP
>  Extension => //p') | tail -1)
>  
>  %if %{fedora} >= 6
>  Requires: php_zend_api = %{php_zendapi}
>  %endif
>  
>  We can also post a RFE on php to also provide the macros on FC6
>  
>  ---
>  Some comments.
>  
>  A load time, PHP check that each extension is compatible.
>  php_dl.c compare ZEND_MODULE_API_NO value at php build time and at
>  extension build time.
>  
>  If this values doesn't match, the extension is not loaded and an error
>  is displayed :
> > PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: mailparse: Unable to initialize module
> > Module compiled with module API=20060613, debug=0, thread-safety=0
> > PHP    compiled with module API=20050922, debug=0, thread-safety=0
> > These options need to match
> >   
>  
>  php-abi (PHP_API_VERSION) is 20041225 for a very long time.
>  php-zend-abi (ZEND_MODULE_API_NO) is the true API version need to check
>  extension compatibility
>  
>  Ex : php-5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.1.6
>  PHP Api Version: 20041225
>  Zend Module Api No: 20050922
>  
>  php-5.2.0
>  PHP Api Version: 20041225
>  Zend Module Api No: 20060613
>  
>  See Bugzilla #212804
>  
>  Requires: php-api could be keep, but is not very useful
>  
>  
>  Thanks for your comments,
>  I could edit the wiki if this is approved and if you want me to do it.
>  
>  Remi.
>  P.S. i hope this is clear ?
>  
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