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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flags
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:57:57
Message-Id: 200406281857.53971.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flags by Alastair Tse
1 On Monday 28 June 2004 15:33, Alastair Tse wrote:
2 > On 27 Jun 2004, at 14:32, Stuart Herbert wrote:
3 > > curlwrappers
4 >
5 > whats the difference between this and "curl"?
6
7 The PHP ebuilds have a CURL extension (enabled by the curl USE flag), and can
8 then make use of curl in PHP's streams functionality (curlwrappers USE flag).
9
10 > Which packages are these used for? Are they just all php and mod_php
11 > useflags? It seems like an awfully high number of global useflags to be
12 > introduced.
13
14 php-cgi, php and mod_php.
15
16 By my count, php5 ships with just short of 100 configurable options. You can
17 imagine the fun I'm having add all the dependencies for these features.
18
19 The most interesting one is 'shared', which I'm using to allow PHP extensions
20 to be built as shared libraries. I'm sure there are other places in the tree
21 where this could be supported (apache for one). As the eutils eclass doesn't
22 really support autoconf's syntax for this, and I didn't want to break
23 backwards compatibility, I've added an additional confutils eclass which does
24 support this syntax.
25
26 Best regards,
27 Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flags Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>