Why --disable-ctype in php

jwezel · Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject: Why --disable-ctype in php

Is there a reason why the ctype module is disabled explicitly through --disable-ctype in php? This hardly makes any sense.

I saw there is a ctype USE flag. I enabled it, but no use.

My version is:

[I] dev-lang/php
Available versions: (5) 5.2.9-r2 5.2.10 ~5.2.10-r1 ~5.2.10-r2 5.2.11 5.2.11-r1
{adabas apache2 bcmath berkdb birdstep bzip2 calendar cdb cgi cjk cli concurrentmodphp crypt ctype curl curlwrappers db2 dbase dbmaker debug discard-path doc empress empress-bcs esoob exif fastbuild fdftk filter firebird flatfile force-cgi-redirect frontbase ftp gd gd-external gdbm gmp hash iconv imap inifile interbase iodbc ipv6 java-external json kerberos kolab ldap ldap-sasl libedit mcve mhash msql mssql mysql mysqli ncurses nls oci8 oci8-instant-client odbc pcntl pcre pdo pic posix postgres qdbm readline recode reflection sapdb session sharedext sharedmem simplexml snmp soap sockets solid spell spl sqlite ssl suhosin sybase sybase-ct sysvipc threads tidy tokenizer truetype unicode wddx xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xpm xsl yaz zip zlib}
Installed versions: 5.2.11-r1(5)(11:05:06 PM 12/12/2009)(bcmath berkdb bzip2 calendar cdb cgi cli crypt ctype curl curlwrappers dbase filter flatfile ftp gd gdbm gmp hash iconv imap inifile ipv6 kerberos ldap ldap-sasl mhash mysql mysqli ncurses nls pcre pdo posix readline reflection session sharedext sharedmem simplexml soap sockets spell spl sqlite ssl sysvipc tidy tokenizer truetype unicode xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xpm xsl zip zlib -adabas -apache2 -birdstep -cjk -concurrentmodphp -db2 -dbmaker -debug -discard-path -doc -empress -empress-bcs -esoob -exif -fastbuild -fdftk -firebird -force-cgi-redirect -frontbase -gd-external -interbase -iodbc -java-external -json -kolab -libedit -mcve -msql -mssql -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pic -postgres -qdbm -recode -sapdb -snmp -solid -suhosin -sybase -sybase-ct -threads -wddx -yaz)
Homepage: http://www.php.net/
Description: The PHP language runtime engine: CLI, CGI and Apache2 SAPIs.

How can I get the ctype built in?
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Johnny Wezel

SLBMEH · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:17 am Post subject:

It is explicitly disabled with the --disable-ctype compile time parameter because php defaults to have it enabled at compile time. The ebuild is written so that if there is no 'ctype' use flag then it calls for '--disable-ctype' to be a compile param... if the use flag is found then there is no modifications to the compile parameters because php defaults to compiling that module.
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jwezel · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject:

jwezel · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject:

Oh, wait, I had another version hidden somewhere. In the emerged version, ctype is enabled now. So it's solved.
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Johnny Wezel

SLBMEH · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject:

Can you pastebin your most recent build log for php from your /var/log/portage/ directory please?
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