Atomicorp

Hi,

I've been happily using the atomic php packages on RHEL5, currently php-5.2.12-2.el5.art . Recently hit an issue where the IDS library used by CiviCRM threw up warnings like:
due to the PCRE library lacking Unicode properties support. The error occurs on one server, running the atomic php packages, but not on another RHEL5 server running php-5.2 packages from another repo. Both servers are on pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7 .

phpinfo for server with atomic php:
./configure has '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' phpinfo for server with other repo's php:
./configure has no mention of pcre I.e. without the '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' flag, it appears to use a more up-to-date PCRE, presumably built-in and with Unicode properties support. If so, could the atomic packages use the same approach?

Thanks,

Dave

Thats sticking with the upstream (meaning redhat's) design, which is to use the system provided pcre library rather than an internal one bundled with PHP.

Thanks for the quick reply, Scott. I found a post suggesting there was an atomic pcre rpm but I don't see it at http://www.atomicorp.com/channels/atomi ... 6_64/RPMS/ . Next option may be this:

http://gaarai.com/2009/01/31/unicode-su ... -and-pcre/

Cheers,

Dave

Someone else was asking about that in the irc channel the other day. An update to pcre is in the build queue now, so it should be out in a day or so in atomic-testing

Hi Scott,

That's good news, does the new pcre package have Unicode properties support?

I think there's an argument for using a recent, non-RedHat pcre when using recent, non-RedHat php packages, since apps requiring recent php will expect this - I get the impression that it's the norm to be using a php-bundled pcre library if using recent php. So I'd vote for that, but I don't have a vote and I can see your reasons for going with the system lib. FWIW Rackspace's php-5.2 packages appear to use php-bundled pcre library.

An updated pcre system lib with Unicode properties support would be a very acceptable substitute.

Thanks again for your quick, informative replies and your excellent repos.

Dave J

It actually doesnt have anything since it hasnt even been started yet.

It would be great when PCRE got updated with UTF-8 support.