I am a heavy user of Wordpress. Especially using the xmlrpc functions
(blog photos from Flickr, "external" blog editors, etc.)
In the past few months this has become a large problem. Entities get
stripped from the text, so no links, HTML formatting etc.
The apparent culprit is libxml2 post version 2.6.31
No resolution from the PHP folks - see the discussion at
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996
No resolution from the Wordpress folks - see the discussion at
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7771
There's no simple fix, but apparently workarounds in some of the Linux
communities by forcing PHP to use expat libraries as opposed to the
libxml2 libraries. I don't understand the pointers to the fix, which
mostly appear to be changes to PHP configuration that look like this
-enable-xml=shared,%{_prefix} --with-expat-dir=%{_prefix}
--with-xmlrpc=shared,%{_prefix} --with-expat-dir=%{_prefix}
but I don't see the difference between those and what is in the PHP
configuration on macports that looks like
--with-libxml-dir=${prefix} \
--with-gettext=${prefix} \
--with-xml \
--with-expat-dir=${prefix} \
--with-xmlrpc \
unless there is some special magic because the expat directory is
included on the same line as the --with-xmlrpc
I could just hack the PHP portfile to try the workaround, but I don't
know what the "shared" means, or the repetitive declaration of --with-
expat-dir
Or, I could just brute force the libxml2 port back to version 2.6.31
Anyone out there want to weigh in on the problem? Assure me that
trying the hacked PHP portfile might not hurt?
Thanks.
8)
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Chris Janton - face at CentosPrime dot COM
Netminder for Opus1.COM
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