Re: [PATCH] Add php

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:43:39 +0100
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> wrote:

> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:
> 
> >> >> Unfortunately that only fixed a handful of tests, the remaining
> >> >> 50-something had to be disabled for a variety of reasons.
> >> >> 
> >> >> I've added a commentary to each disabled test. If you recognize
> >> >> any of these errors/think you know what's going on, please
> >> >> update the patch. It would be nice to know if the iconv and gd
> >> >> stuff is expected, and if the two sqlite tests can really be
> >> >> ignored. The curl one is strange too.  
> >> >
> >> > Just as I wanted to send a similar patch ;)
> >> >
> >> > I've been looking at some of them. The failing sqlite test is a
> >> > bug in sqlite that has been fixed last august 
> >> > (https://sqlite.org/src/info/ef360601). We currently have
> >> > version 3.14.1, when the latest upstream version is 3.15.1.
> >> > Updating should fix the problem.
> >> >
> >> > 73159 has been fixed in gd:
> >> > https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/289 (more recent than
> >> > latest gd release unfortunately)
> >> >
> >> > 73155 has also been fixed in gd: 
> >> > https://github.com/libgd/libgd/issues/309 (even more recent)
> >> >
> >> > 72482 is fixed here: 
> >> > https://gist.github.com/anonymous/873314feb4f89bd8336711333299f748
> >> > (a patch to the bundled libgd)
> >> >
> >> > 73213 is fixed here: 
> >> > https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blobdiff;f=ext/gd/libgd/gd.c;h=033d4fa5f0e9740e8b8c397a9038a115c617c419;hp=0b4b42fa27558fa32cc54e14dc297d9d0ba10832;hb=9acfb1a3a5268febb123b7e5fbd4eaf072c83537;hpb=c0219b323e0048440acbdd9ad74624c4bc33c335 
> >> > (a patch to the bundled libgd)
> >> >
> >> > 72339 has a CVE id: 2016-5766, but it should be fixed in libgd
> >> > 2.2.3 that we have according to the CVE description, and the
> >> > failure is different from what the report says.
> >> >
> >> > 39780 has the unexpected output described in the bug report, so
> >> > it really fails. I don't think we can fix our libgd though,
> >> > because the bundled one has some php_* functions that are used
> >> > to get a warning instead of an error.
> >> >
> >> > we could include patches to our libgd to fix two (maybe four)
> >> > issues. We should also upgrade our sqlite version, but many
> >> > packages will then have to be rebuilt, or we could create a
> >> > separate package for the newer version. What do you suggest?  
> >> 
> >> Wow, thanks for this list! Including the two upstream gd fixes in a
> >> "gd-for-php" package should be fine, until a new release of gd is
> >> out. I'm more vary about including the PHP-specific ones though.
> >> 
> >> If there are serious problems with using an external (vanilla) gd,
> >> I think we either need to maintain a "gd-for-php" package
> >> indefinitely, or bite the bullet and use the bundled one.
> >> 
> >> Do you think it's safe to use our gd? And if not, would you be
> >> willing to keep up with PHP development and maintain the
> >> externalized gd component with it?
> >
> > 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?

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