I'd like to request confirmation of the problem, as well
as the solution, before I submit this as a formal bug.
* PEAR is a package/module manager PEAR was for PHP.
* PHP 4.1.2 was installed with Jaguar.
* PEAR was installed (by Apple) with Jaguar along with a number
of additional modules (reference /System/Library/PHP). PEAR was
not a default item in 4.1.2 PHP installations.
* PEAR is a default install with PHP 4.3+.
* PHP 4.3.2 is installed with Panther.
* The default PEAR is installed with Panther.
I submit that PEAR under Panther does not work:
% /usr/bin/pear -v
Warning: main(System.php): failed to open stream:
No such file or directory in Config.php on line 23
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'System.php'
(include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /usr/lib/php/PEAR/Config.php
on line 23
In fact, there's no System.php file anywhere ("locate System.php"). Nor is
there anything located in /System/Library/PHP (I suspect this is because
Apple chose not to install any of the PEAR packages for the user, as they
did with the non-PEAR default of 4.1.2/Jaguar).
But, with the System.php file missing on Panther, none of the
cross-platform, system-specific functions are defined for PEAR, thus it
fails. Copying over /System/Library/PHP/System.php in Jaguar solved nothing
- due to the oldness of the file (2001), tmpdir() was not defined.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: tmpdir()
in /usr/lib/php/PEAR/Config.php on line 116
Now, grab the latest System.php from the PHP CVS
http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/php-src/pear/System.php
and drop it into /usr/lib/php/ (you'll probably need
to sudo cp the file to do so). Once that happens,
PEAR works fine:
% sudo pear list
Installed packages:
===================
Package Version State
Archive_Tar 0.9 stable
Console_Getopt 1.0 stable
PEAR 0.9 stable
Can anyone confirm this? Sanity check my solution? Give more insight?
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