The following new/revived shared modules are available now:
... MySQL (*)
... PCRE (*)
... Session
... SWF
(*) capable of using bundled library or external library
All changes:
The m4 macro PHP_EXTENSION was revamped. Uses LIB_BUILD now.
This effectively means that all extensions have to use dynlib.
ext/mysql/config.m4 was revamped.
Uses LIB_BUILD for building bundled library.
ext/pcre/config.m4 was revamped.
Uses LIB_BUILD for building bundled library.
ext/ext_skel was changed to reflect that more modules should be
compileable as shared module.
ext/Makefile.in has been simplified enormously.
Dependencies are now stored in the build tree.
Empty dependencies are not generated by buildconf anymore. They
are now dynamically created during the build process.
Implicit rules for .S were removed.
The NO_RECURSION feature was removed.
"libs.mk" has been added to all cvsignore files in ext.
- added support for externally built modules,
- improved support for in-tree shared modules,
- fixed diversion bugs,
- configure displays some informative messages,
- faster static build
(libtool isn't used anymore for compiling non-PIC objects),
- dependencies comparable to automake's without requiring GNU make or GCC,
- working make clean for non-GNU makes.
with libtool components
* SAPI targets can enable thread-safe mode and define
shared/static/program build target
* all configure scripts use the same config.cache
* phplibdir is $(top_builddir)/modules to avoid
permission problems
* sapi/*/Makefile.inc are gone
* runpath handling cleaned up
* top-level Makefile.in obsoleted through Makefile.am
* --enable-versioning uses libtool's cleaner and more
portable -export-symbols feature
- Made it possible to specify external location of the PCRE library
- Reworked PCRE extension to use updated PCRE library API
Hopefully now everything behaves just like Perl..
-Updated preg_replace() code to handle stuff properly
-Removed ability to specify external PCRE library source to link against
(since our bundled version is patched now)
PCRE library can be found at ftp://ftp.cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/pcre/
config.m4 will be updated to be more robust later on.
perl_match() takes a regular expression, the source string, and the array
for subpattern matches.
perl_replace() takes a regular expression, the search string, and the replacement
string.
Regular expression is specified using delimiters and options. Example:
perl_match("/<[a-z]*>/i", $text, $tags);
More stuff is coming soon.
