- Git is used for moving existing extensions to PECL
- PHP versions with the PHP 7.4 examples
- Some minor tweaks here and there
- Mention re2c also
- Mention Docker image as a helper tool
This enhances the makidst script:
- integrate both snapshot and makedist scripts together
- add help and options
- generated files are created in the php-src repository directly
- other minor enhancemenets such as CS fixes
- functionality moved from the Makefile to only shell script
- Add missed patching of the Zend Parsers to the main build step
- Add all *.tmp files to gitignore
The acinclude.m4 file is in a usual Autotools build processed with
Automake's aclocal tool. Since PHP currently doesn't use Automake and
aclocal this file can be moved into the build directory. PHP build
system currently generates a combined aclocal.m4 file that Autoconf
can processes automatically.
However, a newer practice is writing all local macros in separate
dedicated files prefixed with package name, in PHP's case PHP_MACRO_NAME
and putting them in a common `m4` directory. PHP uses currently `build`
directory for this purpose.
Name `php.m4` probably most resembles such file for PHP's case.
PHP manually created the aclocal.m4 file from acinclude.m4 and
build/libtool.m4. Which is also not a particularly good practice [1], so
this patch also removes the generated alocal.m4 usage and uses
m4_include() calls manually in the configure.ac and phpize.m4 files
manually.
- sort order is not important but can be alphabetical
- list of *.m4 files prerequisites for configure script generation
updated
- Moving m4_include() before AC_INIT also removes all comments starting
with hash character (`#`) in the included files.
[1] https://autotools.io/autoconf/macros.html
Checked and quickfixed with Markdown linter
- 80 columns line width (~)
- code highlighting
- ...
Some most obvious outdated content updated a bit more.
The new dedicated docs directory has been introduced after a discussion
on GitHub[1].
Main issue it is addressing is the reduction of too many README files in
the project root directory. The new directory is dedicated for notes and
quick documentation files that either can't be put in the manual or wiki
pages or that relate to the php-src repository specifically and need to
live together with the source code.
Also the `docs` directory is by GitHub used for some repository
configuration files such as pull request templates, and contributing
documentation helper files that are integrated in the interface.
[1]: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3988
