According to the Free Software Foundation [1] php CANNOT be legally
linked to libreadline, because libreadline is licensed under the GPL and
php is licensed under the php license.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230030
Title:
php segfaults with readline
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Update: The bug ist still present in 11.10, 3.5 years after I reported
it. You still need to press [TAB] twice to make it crash. If you would
link against libreadline instead of libedit, this bug would vanish.
iblue@nerdpol:/tmp$ lsb_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 11.10
Release:11.10
JFYI Update: The bug is still present in 8.10. You need to press [TAB]
two times now to make it crash.
PHP version:
PHP 5.2.6-2ubuntu4.1 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Feb 11 2009
20:38:24)
Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend
Thanks for the bug report I will revisit this again for intrepid.
Thanks
chuck
** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
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php segfaults with readline
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For the record, libedit is pretty much known-broken in many ways, though
it's our only option (we can't legally link PHP with libreadline, thanks
to license conflicts).
If we intend to keep PHP linkes with libedit (I always had readline
support disabled in the past, for this very reason), we
