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Bug #76699 Interactive mode vs. shell confusion
Submitted: 2018-08-03 14:49 UTC Modified: 2021-12-14 14:12 UTC
From: cmb@php.net Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: CGI/CLI related
PHP Version: master-Git-2018-08-03 (Git) OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2018-08-03 14:49 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Description:
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When running `php -a` it is supposed to either print "Interactive
shell" or "Interactive mode enabled" depending on readline/libedit
support. However, this is determined during compile time[1], and
as such can't work reliably, since we can't know whether a shared
extension will actually be available or not.

Linux:
    $ ./configure --disable-all --with-readline=shared
    $ make
    $ sapi/cli/php -d extension=modules/readline.so -a
    Interactive mode enabled

    php >

Windows:
    $ configure --disable-all --enable-cli
    $ nmake
    $ x64\Release_TS\php -a
    Interactive shell

See also bug #70543.

[1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/ab8094c/sapi/cli/php_cli.c#L918-L922>

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 [2021-12-14 14:12 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Closed -Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-12-14 14:12 UTC] cmb@php.net 
This is apparently resolved by
<https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/959e5787bdf7c088a57dce5f4f7570abd7fe35f8>.
 
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