A critical application of one of my customers has stoped working after installing php-4.0.4pl1 errara RPM. Suddenly, all empty variables get whitespace that look like newlines (well the produce newlines in the html generated code), so all checks for empty strungs fail as newline is not empty. There is a workaround (trimming everiyhing before use) but that is inducing quite a big code rewrite.
Please check if the test packages (php-4.0.4pl1-5) in http://people.redhat.com/nalin/test/ fix this. This appears to have been a very unfortunate side-effect of parsing fixes. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24933 ***
You've been very fast. I had found the link to your patch in #24933 and tried the RPMs. The newline, which was realliy prepended to all flieds, has dissapiared, and everything seems to be back to normal. I have to do some more tests with the file fields. Thanks for such prompt response