What happened to PEAR/PECL libraries?

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What happened to PEAR/PECL libraries?

I noticed recently that while Mac OS X 10.6 ships with PEAR installed for PHP, it’s completely missing from Server 10.6. Does anyone know why? I tried to install PEAR from the Web but it refuses:

curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear | sudo php

…

(Accept all the defaults)

Downloading package: PEAR.............PHP Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in - on line 1080
ok
Downloading package: Structures_Graph....PHP Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in - on line 1080
ok

Preparing installer..................
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 650
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 697
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 757
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 786
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 914
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 1577
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 1607
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 2038
PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR/Config.php on line 2091
PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare PEAR_calldestructors() (previously declared in /usr/local/temp/PEAR.php:765) in /usr/local/temp/temp/PEAR.php on line 777

This is on my office’s 2.66 GHz mini Server w/4 GB RAM, Mac OS X Server 10.6.4 with all Software Updates applied and Xcode installed.

24-in iMac, 20-in iMac, MacBook, G5 server, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Oct 4, 2010 6:19 AM

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Answer 1

Al Brower

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Oct 5, 2010 6:02 PM in response to Sevardin

Pear is installed on my 10.6 servers at
/usr/bin/pear

The libraries/modules are at
/usr/lib/php

I installed 10.6 from disk (fresh install).

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Answer 2

Sevardin Author

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Oct 6, 2010 5:57 AM in response to Al Brower

That’s strange. The server in question shipped with 10.6 Server installed by Apple. I added Xcode later, but there’s still no PEAR in /usr/bin or elsewhere on the machine.

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Answer 3

Oct 8, 2010 5:03 PM in response to Sevardin

I'm having the same issue- pecl and pear have both vanished. Did Apple remove them in the last Snow Leopard update? If so that's pretty messed up.

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Answer 4

Oct 14, 2010 12:48 PM in response to Robert Hafner

I'm having the same problem. Had same results when trying the same pear install procedure as David O'Donnell.

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Answer 5

Oct 14, 2010 1:11 PM in response to Sevardin

David,

I tried what you tried from /usr/local and got the same result. Then I tried it from my home directory as follows:

curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear > go-pear.php
sudo php -q go-pear.php

You can accept all of the default options EXCEPT make sure that you set the "Installation prefix ($prefix)" to /usr/local.

There are more instructions here: http://clickontyler.com/blog/2008/01/how-to-install-pear-in-mac-os-x-leopard/

It gave a lot of deprecation warnings but it worked.

hth

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