Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:12:47 -0400 From: Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: lystic1@gmail.com Subject: Re: problems installing php (php5-spl) with portmaster Message-ID: <C8F6051F.1D6A6%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <20101102011455.36126.qmail@joyce.lan>
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On 11/1/10 9:14 PM, "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > >> portupgrade. However, I just unregistered php5-spl, because its no longer >> necessary. I believe php5-spl and php5-pcre are now integrated into PHP-5.3 >> by default. > > Yes and no. pcre depends on the separate pcre package, and php will fail > in baffling ways is your pcre is too old. > > The maintainer of the php port is aware of this but has declined both > to make a one-line change to the Makefile to use the bundled pcre > package, or an alternate one-line change to document the version > dependency. gosh! is there a test i can run to see if my pcre is going to fail in any baffling ways?
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