Re: community docs config issue

Dave Page wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry Rosenman [mailto:ler(at)lerctr(dot)org]
>> Sent: 19 April 2006 16:52
>> To: Dave Page; 'Magnus Hagander'; 'Robert Treat'
>> Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] community docs config issue
>>
>>
>> I think(!) I have a fix:
>>
>> 1) make distclean for xdiff-pecl
>> 2) ./configure
>> 3) edit config.h and CHANGE #undef HAVE_XDL_ALLOCATOR_PRIV to
>> #define HAVE_XDL_ALLOCATOR_PRIV 1
>> 4) recompile and install
>>
>> this seems to fix it on my system.
>>
>> The configure script apparently doesn't test for this
>> correctly, and we try to free when we are actually trying to malloc.
>
> Oh, nice work Larry :-)
>
> Fix confirmed on wwwmaster - module reinstalled, apache restarted.
>
> The community docs diff function still doesn't work though - did you
> disable it Magnus? I've confirmed the existance of xdiff in the server
> through a phpinfo() call in a test page, as well as on the command
> line.
>

I'm also in the process of doing 2 other things:
1) adopt the libxdiff FreeBSD port (so I can fix the -fPIC issue on
amd64 (or have it build a shared lib)
2) creating a textproc/pecl-xdiff port that uses the above, and does
the fix we did here (appends the #define, but same effect).

LER

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