Trouble installing PECL module

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 30, 2013, at 15:42, Michael Newton wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> I've worked around it for now:
>> 
>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/110361
>> 
>> The bugs as I see it are
>> 
>> 1) the documentation does not mention that the php sockets extension should be installed
>> 2) the build system does not recognize when the php sockets extension has been installed separately and not compiled into the php executable
> 
> Thanks for your assistance with this, it works great now. When I tried forcing -DHAVE_SOCKETS during configure, I just got errors during compilation. (And the only google result for that error was a bug report you filed on php.net!)
> 
> I don't see 1) being a problem, since if I'm trying to pass it an already created socket resource I will obviously have the extension installed. However I wasn't sure if 2) was a problem unique to Macports; I had a feeling that if I built it from source that COMPILE_DL_SOCKETS or HAVE_SOCKETS would have been defined somewhere along the way. Maybe I'll give that a shot and file an upstream bug if it's still a problem.

1) is a problem in that I, as a person packaging the software without really knowing what it's supposed to do, had no way of knowing that it required another package. A program's documentation should mention what its requirements are. It mentioned needing libevent and openssl, but not the PHP sockets extension.

If you build PHP from source and compile in the sockets extension then I expect those constants will be defined, however it is more convenient for users to be able to add and remove extensions later, after having compiled PHP itself, like we do in MacPorts, and it seems like their build system should either detect and accommodate that usage or the documentation should be updated to state that -DHAVE_SOCKETS needs to be added.