php53 forces use of outdated PCRE

[ionizer]

php53 contains pcre 8.0 or better (cf. bug 532171) which is great.
php53.x86_64 (5.3.2-6.ius.el5) is compiled with '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' which ignores built-in pcre in favour of system pcre.
Between CentOS base, EPEL and IUS repos, the best system pcre available is pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7

Therefore the compilation flag '--with-pcre-regex=/usr' forces a major reduction in pcre functionality, unless user is willing to find bespoke pcre rpm or compile from source.

Specifically, the old pcre causes problems on systems running Drupal 6 and better

#uname -a
Linux <hostname> 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:04:48 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[BJ Dierkes (derks)]

Both php52 and php53 follow Fedora as semi-upstream in order to remain as similar as possible to what comes down the pipe for RHEL. This is one of those changes. That said, I think it would make sense to use a later version of PCRE being that users are upgrading PHP to get the latest version of that as well.

We will consider this for the next php53 update.

Thank you!

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

Source pushed to https://code.launchpad.net/~ius-coredev/ius/php53u and pending build.

[BJ Dierkes (derks)]

The latest version of php53u-5.3.5-1 implements this change, and is currently in ius-testing. We would really appreciate any feedback on testing before we push this to stable.

Thanks!

[Jeffrey Ness (jeffrey-ness)]

Packages pushed to stable