Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

>>> > Failures in tests caused by external gd are not too serious to
>>> > require us to switch to the bundled one I think. We may not even
>>> > need to patch our libgd with php specific patches, since the
>>> > failures are only slight deviation from the spec on corner cases.
>>> > If you prefer that we apply these patches too, then we could, and I
>>> > would still try to keep that up to date.
>>> 
>>> OK. Let's use external gd for now barring any serious issues.
>>> 
>>> >
>>> > What I am more worried about are the iconv crashes. That may be due
>>> > to lacking locales though.
>>> 
>>> You could try commenting them out and adding "glibc-locales" to
>>> native-inputs. Not sure if they will get picked up by that however.
>>> 
>>> A better test may be to try out that particular functionality using
>>> the installed version of php. If that works, we can be reasonably
>>> sure that dropping the tests is fine.
>>> 
>>> Attached is the final product, after adding a "gd-for-php" variable
>>> with the two upstream patches, as well as sqlite-3.15.1 (separate
>>> patch).
>>> 
>>> I'll push this tomorrow if there are no further comments. Thanks for
>>> your perseverance :)
>> Just one question: why defining gd-for-php with define, and not
>> define-public?
>
> It's to prevent it from showing up when people are searching for 'gd',
> and also to prevent it from being included by other files.
>
> It's only a temporary measure until the next version is released, so I
> saw no reason to export it.
>
> I'm on my way out, but will commit this tomorrow most likely :-)

Sorry for the delay, PHP is in master now!