Bug#298028: swig: PHP generation is broken with -zts enabled (and it is now the default in sid)

[John Lenz]

I would just add a warning to SWIG, so that if it is run with the -php  
argument it outputs a warning like PHP wrapper support is currently broken  
with Debian.  Please see Sourceforge bug whatever (provide a link maybe  
too).

I would also say since it is only a problem with threading if a user really  
needed to use SWIG on something, they could recompile apache and recompile  
php themselves and then still use the SWIG that would be in debian, just  
ignoring the error.

Thus this SWIG package is usable, even from a php standpoint.  Lastly, not  
very many people use SWIG for php... php doesn't even support multiple  
modules sharing type information (%import).

John

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Bug#298028: swig: PHP generation is broken with -zts enabled (and it is now the default in sid)

[Torsten Landschoff]

Hi Pierre, 

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:46:41AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
 Package: swig
 Severity: grave
 Tags: sid
 Justification: renders package unusable

Come on, you must be kidding.

1) the problem is already known and you are even referencing that other
   bug report
2) this breaks only php wrappers generated by swig. Given that swig can
   generate wrappers for 15 other languages I'd hardly agree that this 
   makes the package unusable. For example the subversion bindings for
   perl and python are generated using this swig and are working just
   fine.

   with zts enabled, any PHP generation generates a lot of errors.  in
 fact, any PHP bindings generated by SWIG now FTBFS with such errors :
 
   foo.c||  error: `tsrm_ls' undeclared (first use in this function) ...
   foo.c||  error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

I know.

   the problem is know upstreams (like said here [1]), but they don't

Yes, I reported it.

 seem very hasty in fixing it.

No, they don't have the knowledge of PHP.

   Since this break all the packages generated by SWIG in debian, this is

This is false. 

 at least grave, and should really be fixed.  (I'm sorry, I've not enough

So this is false as well.

 php internals knowledge to help you on that).

Me neither. 

   you can read #294003 [2] that is an example of php binding generated
 by swig that is now broken.

That's interesting, I did not know of any package using swig to generate
PHP bindings. I'll try to find a way to fix this. Steve Langasek already 
offered his help as well.

Greetings

Torsten


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