Description:
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PHP 4.4.1 seems to behave strangely when looking for the config file. Below I have an example that appears to be contradictory, or at least extremely unintuitive. PHP reports that it is using a certain configuration file, but then ignores the contents. When I specify the configuration file directly, it works fine.

While investigating, I also show GDB reporting a corrupted stack.

Reproduce code:
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$ pwd
/home/admin/install
$ rm -rf php-4.4.1/
$ tar jxf ../download/php-4.4.1.tar.bz2 
$ cd php-4.4.1/
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/admin --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/admin/etc/php.ini --with-config-file-scan-dir=/usr/local/admin/etc/php --with-pgsql --with-mysql --with-curl --with-gd --enable-fastcgi --with-openssl --with-zlib --enable-bcmath --with-bz2 --enable-calendar --enable-dba --with-db4 --with-mhash --with-mcrypt 
$ make && make install
$ grep pgsql.allow_persistent /usr/local/admin/etc/php.ini
pgsql.allow_persistent = Off
$ /usr/local/admin/bin/php -i | grep Configuration
<tr><td class="e">Configuration File (php.ini) Path </td><td class="v">/usr/local/admin/etc/php.ini </td></tr>
<h1>Configuration</h1>

Notice that php reports that it is using the config file "/usr/local/admin/etc/php.ini", and that that config file has pgsql.allow_persistent = Off.


Expected result:
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$ /usr/local/admin/bin/php -i | grep pgsql.allow_persistent
<tr><td class="e">pgsql.allow_persistent</td><td class="v">Off</td><td class="v">Off</td></tr>
$ /usr/local/admin/bin/php -i \
    -c /usr/local/admin/etc/php.ini \
    | grep pgsql.allow_persistent
<tr><td class="e">pgsql.allow_persistent</td><td class="v">Off</td><td class="v">Off</td></tr>


Actual result:
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Notice below how pgsql.allow_persistent is On when the config file says it should be Off.

$ /usr/local/admin/bin/php -i | grep pgsql.allow_persistent
<tr><td class="e">pgsql.allow_persistent</td><td class="v">On</td><td class="v">On</td></tr>

Notice below how the config file obviously works. It's really just the php.ini-dist with all of the "allow_persistent" settings turned Off. Below I specify the config file explicitly and it works fine.

$ /usr/local/admin/bin/php -i \
    -c /usr/local/admin/etc/php.ini \
    | grep pgsql.allow_persistent
<tr><td class="e">pgsql.allow_persistent</td><td class="v">Off</td><td class="v">Off</td></tr>

While investigating the problem, I saw some strange results from gdb:

$ gdb /usr/local/admin/bin/php
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This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
(gdb) set args "-i"
(gdb) break php_init_config
Breakpoint 1 at 0x81468b8: file /home/admin/install/php-4.4.1/main/php_ini.c, line 251.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/admin/bin/php "-i"

Breakpoint 1, php_init_config ()
    at /home/admin/install/php-4.4.1/main/php_ini.c:251
251             zend_file_handle fh = {0};
(gdb) watch free_ini_search_path
Hardware watchpoint 2: free_ini_search_path
(gdb) continue
Continuing.
Hardware watchpoint 2: free_ini_search_path

Old value = 0
New value = 1
php_init_config () at /home/admin/install/php-4.4.1/main/php_ini.c:288
288                     php_ini_search_path[0] = 0;
(gdb) step
295                     if (env_location[0]) {
(gdb)
315                     if (strcmp(sapi_module.name, "cli") != 0) {
(gdb)
316                             if (*php_ini_search_path) {
(gdb)
319                             strcat(php_ini_search_path, ".");
(gdb)
331                     if (sapi_module.executable_location) {
(gdb)
332                             binary_location = estrdup(sapi_module.executable_location);
(gdb)
_estrdup (s=0x81bed31 "i-fcgi")
    at /home/admin/install/php-4.4.1/Zend/zend_alloc.c:360
360     {
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0  _estrdup (s=0x81bed31 "i-fcgi")
    at /home/admin/install/php-4.4.1/Zend/zend_alloc.c:360
0x08146e94 in php_init_config ()
    at /home/admin/install/php-4.4.1/main/php_ini.c:332
332                             binary_location = estrdup(sapi_module.executable_location);
Value returned is $1 = 0x822304c "/usr/local/admin/bin/php"
(gdb) step
337                     if (binary_location) {
(gdb)
332                             binary_location = estrdup(sapi_module.executable_location);
(gdb)
337                     if (binary_location) {
(gdb)
338                             char *separator_location = strrchr(binary_location, DEFAULT_SLASH);
(gdb)
Error evaluating expression for watchpoint 2
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
Watchpoint 2 deleted.
0x281c7b07 in r_debug_state () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
(gdb) 

It looks like there's some kind of problem there, since gdb says "corrupt stack". I'm not particularly good with gdb, so maybe there's nothing wrong with PHP.