[php-maint] LFS support in sight

[Steve Langasek]

Hey guys,

Peter Samuelson has helpfully tracked down the problem with libapr blowing
up when building code against it using -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, so I've now
been able to build an LFS-enabled libapache2-mod-php4 which doesn't segfault
-- w00t!

Now, the thing is that LFS also changes the PHP extension API -- it's
*supposed* to, the current API can't handle 64-bittage -- which means we
ought to be documenting this change in the exported "phpapi" version that we
export everywhere, and get all the out-of-tree extension packages recompiled
for it, to avoid accidentally shipping an inconsistent set of extension
packages for etch.

Does anyone object to going ahead with this immediately?  The code is all
ready once I decide how to best go about retrofitting
patches/053-extension_api.patch, so all I need is for this list to give the
word.

Thanks,
-- 
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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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