Hello Brian,
> B) Compiled in cygphp4.dll (bundled libs) / won't work shared: > bcmath, calendar, dba (gdbm, cdb, cdb_make, inifile, flatfile), dbase, > dbx, dio, exif, filepro, ftp, mysql, pcre, xml Why don't these work shared? [...] > Anyway, I'm getting pretty close to being able to ITP a whole slew of > stuff but I'd like to get some opinions on some matters first. Below > are some issues to consider: > - mysqlclient. At the moment I'm compiling the "PHP bundled" MySQL > client library, but I think it would be better if Cygwin had mysqlclient > and mysqlclient-devel packages. That way mod_php could link against > those, and the issue of "no other Apache modules can use MySQL if you > use the bundled php version" is solved. I'll take a look at packaging > this as well, I've read that the -client packages compile cleanly. I > don't think the -server side builds clean yet though. Would you like to contribute the mysqlclient package? I should build without problems also with shared libs (of course after relibtoolizing and adding the -no-undefined flag). [...package name issue...] Isn't is possible to keep the names? Apache with mod_xyz packages? Gerrit -- =^..^=