NTS/ZTS versions ?

[drupol]

Hello,

I would like to tests some stuff locally using NTS version of PHP.

From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1623914/what-is-thread-safe-or-non-thread-safe-in-php:

The Non-Thread Safe version should be used if you install PHP as a CGI binary, command line interface or other environment where only a single thread is used.

A thread-safe version should be used if you install PHP as an Apache module in a worker MPM (multi-processing model) or other environment where multiple PHP threads run concurrently.

I'm using my own package to provide a development shell here: https://github.com/loophp/nix-shell/

This morning, I was trying to disable ZTS support so I can use NTS, but it is not working. I committed this: loophp/nix-shell@11565ae but the PHP version produced is always ZTS.

Could you please give me some advice on how to do that?

Thanks.

[drupol]

I finally found a solution here: loophp/nix-shell@15d8a8a

I'm wondering if this is normal. In order to disable ZTS, I have to disable the flag apxs2Support.

If I change the line:

  phpOverride = (phps.${version}.override { apxs2Support = apxs2Support; }).buildEnv {

into

  phpOverride = (phps.${version}.override { ztsSupport = apxs2Support; }).buildEnv {

it doesn't work. I found it here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-unstable/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/generic.nix#L53

By the way, how about building NTS version by default in Nixos ?

[drupol]

Closing this issue, support for NTS is now enabled by default in Nix.