395771 – >=dev-lang/php-5.3.9_rc3 no USE=sharedext?

Bug 395771 - >=dev-lang/php-5.3.9_rc3 no USE=sharedext?

Summary: >=dev-lang/php-5.3.9_rc3 no USE=sharedext?

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	PHP Bugs

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Reported:	2011-12-23 06:27 UTC by Nilesh Govindrajan
Modified:	2011-12-23 17:40 UTC (History)
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Description Nilesh Govindrajan 2011-12-23 06:27:41 UTC

For >=dev-lang/php-5.3.9_rc3, there's no sharedext useflag. PHP compiles all the extensions statically- which isn't the preferred way usually.
Even rc2 has the flag.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ole Markus With (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-23 17:19:02 UTC

Hi,

On Gentoo it has always been preferred to compile the modules statically. The sharedext USE flag was a pain to maintain and caused a lot of ugliness in the ebuilds. It is now removed since few people used it and little is gained by compiling extensions shared.

Comment 2 Nilesh Govindrajan 2011-12-23 17:40:59 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hi,
> 
> On Gentoo it has always been preferred to compile the modules statically. The
> sharedext USE flag was a pain to maintain and caused a lot of ugliness in the
> ebuilds. It is now removed since few people used it and little is gained by
> compiling extensions shared.

Oh. After thinking, even I feel I don't need the sharedext flag, because I have a ccache cache with portage. So recompiling won't be too cpu intensive.