Bugzilla Bug 15602

This bug is related to bug 72 and bug 15177. So sumarize, when one uses
Courier-imap and wants to install PHP (with the USE keyword IMAP), he still has
to install UW-imap. That quite confusing.

Looking on the newsgroups, I found this post:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=97mgh5%24i2u%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw
It explains how to compile only the part of UW-imap required for PHP.

If I understand well the use of virtual packages, I suggest then to have a
virtual package imap-c-client and a package uw-imap-c-client.
uw-imap-c-client will only provide the libc-client from uw-imap. Both
uw-imap-c-client and the regular uw-imap package would satisfy imap-c-client.
PHP would only require (if keyword IMAP is defined that is) imap-c-client.

will php compile with imap support against Courier-imap ?

From bug 72, PHP currently _requires_ UW for compiling. It doesn't work with
Courier alone. The thing is that PHP doesn't require the full UW-Imap package,
only a specific library (and I'm not even sure that it need UW at all at
runtime, only a compilation time).

That why I'm suggesting to have a package that is only a subset of UW, to have
what is require for PHP without having a full IMAP package

This is correct.  c-client is the library containing end app client functions.

PHP does indeed require c-client.

I agree that the IMAP USE keyword is misleading and in this case incorrect.  A separate package should be created to to provide c-client functionality only.

I have written a c-client ebuild and modified the mod_php ebuild so that imap
in mod_php uses c-client instead of uw-imap if USE="imap"

Created an attachment (id=11379) [details]
mod_php-4.3.1-r2.ebuild patch to use c-client instead of uw-imap

Created an attachment (id=11380) [details]
ebuild for c-client

(From update of attachment 11380 [details])
this ebuild also includes the patch from Ilya Volynets in bug 19442 for CLFAGS

(From update of attachment 11380 [details])
this also includes the CFLAGS patch from Ilya Volynets in bug 19442

the ebuild for c-client also includes the CLFAGS patch from Ilya Volynets from
bug 19442

ok, well now I know where the comments go :)

opps

Created an attachment (id=11381) [details]
Patch for Makefile to only build c-client library

bug link to ebuild for c-client

Just an update on this.

Presently it looks like there will be a virtual,
virtual/imap-c-client

which will be provided by UW-Imap, VImap, and the c-client ebuild. 

Consider it a work in progress.

*** Bug 22334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

It's been in CVS a file now, and works.

The only thing I noticed when checking this was that the php.eclass no longer
has xml2 listed in its IUSE flags even though it tests it.  I'll file a
separate bug report about this unless someone just wants to tweak it and check
it in.

Ok, i've fixed that IUSE=xml2 wayne.

Closing (very) old bug.