php-src/UPGRADING.INTERNALS
Peter Kokot 29dc0470c8
Remove AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL
Autoconf 2.59d (released in 2006) [1] started promoting several macros
as not relevant for newer systems, including the AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL.

This macro checks if `utime(file, NULL)` sets file's timestamp to the
current time and defines the `HAVE_UTIME_NULL` symbol. This check was
relevant on very old systems (for example, 4.3BSD released in 1986) and
today can be omitted for systems with utime since it should be well
supported by now. [2]

Refs:
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/NEWS
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/autoconf.html
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PHP 7.4 INTERNALS UPGRADE NOTES
1. Internal API changes
a. php_sys_symlink() and php_sys_link()
b. zend_lookup_class_ex() and zend_fetch_class_by_name()
2. Build system changes
a. Unix build system changes
b. Windows build system changes
3. Module changes
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1. Internal API changes
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a. php_sys_symlink() and php_sys_link() portability macros have been
added, which behave like POSIX's symlink() and link(), respectively, on
POSIX compliant systems and on Windows.
b. zend_lookup_class_ex() and zend_fetch_class_by_name() prototypes were
changed to accept optional lower-case class name as zend_string*,
instead of zval*.
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2. Build system changes
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a. Unix build system changes
- configure --help now also outputs --program-suffix and --program-prefix
information by using the Autoconf AC_ARG_PROGRAM macro.
- Obsolescent macros AC_FUNC_VPRINTF and AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL have been
removed. Symbols HAVE_VPRINTF and HAVE_UTIME_NULL are no longer defined
since they are not needed on the current systems.
b. Windows build system changes
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3. Module changes
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