Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP4] Problem with old versions of 'ar' From: Sascha Schumann (sascha <email protected>)
Date: 03/28/00

On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 08:30:52AM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> But that doesn't help at all if the underlaying compiler, and more
> importantly the loader, does not support the new archive
> structure. You can't simply install GNU ar and have your system 'ld'
> parse the new archive. And there are many, many legacy systems
> out there that have gcc installed, but it's 'ld' implementation
> is simply collect.

If people install binutils, they get a fresh and widely portable link editor
for free..

No, that does not repair defects in the underlying system, but it works
around limitations of old build tools.

> It's certainly a valid argument saying that PHP4 doesn't support
> the legacy systems that worked just fine with PHP3. If that's
> the decision, then that's it.

I think I said this on new-httpd some months ago already. If supporting
a specific platform is possible without any major rework or adding to
much bloat, I'm all for it.

And the real question is: why would someone want to install PHP 4.0 on a
machine with 25MHz or less. Masochist? ;)

- Sascha 

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