Bug 15602 – PHP imap UW-imap Courier-imap

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Nahor 2003-02-12 17:52:19 UTC]

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.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-03-03 04:33:47 UTC]

will php compile with imap support against Courier-imap ?

[Comment 2 Nahor 2003-03-11 16:13:57 UTC]

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

[Comment 3 Celestial Wizard 2003-04-30 08:35:46 UTC]

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.

[Comment 4 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 06:58:53 UTC]

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"

[Comment 5 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 07:02:37 UTC]

Created attachment 11379 [details, diff]
mod_php-4.3.1-r2.ebuild patch to use c-client instead of uw-imap

[Comment 6 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 07:03:28 UTC]

Created attachment 11380 [details]
ebuild for c-client

[Comment 7 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 07:04:37 UTC]

Comment on attachment 11380 [details]
ebuild for c-client

this ebuild also includes the patch from Ilya Volynets in bug 19442 for CLFAGS

[Comment 8 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 07:06:03 UTC]

Comment on attachment 11380 [details]
ebuild for c-client

this also includes the CFLAGS patch from Ilya Volynets in bug 19442

[Comment 9 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 07:07:19 UTC]

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

[Comment 10 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 07:07:57 UTC]

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

opps

[Comment 11 Celestial Wizard 2003-05-02 07:08:24 UTC]

Created attachment 11381 [details, diff]
Patch for Makefile to only build c-client library

[Comment 12 Robin Johnson 2003-05-23 13:27:04 UTC]

bug link to ebuild for c-client

[Comment 13 Robin Johnson 2003-06-05 14:02:41 UTC]

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.

[Comment 14 Robin Johnson 2003-06-06 17:26:42 UTC]

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

[Comment 15 Robin Johnson 2003-06-26 11:52:11 UTC]

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

[Comment 16 Wayne Davison 2003-06-26 13:07:31 UTC]

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.

[Comment 17 Robin Johnson 2003-06-26 13:35:56 UTC]

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

[Comment 18 Stuart Herbert (RETIRED) 2004-08-16 05:59:20 UTC]

Closing (very) old bug.