php52: make a port for php 5.2.x

[stuchalk (Stuart Chalk)]

I would like to request that a php52 port be made available from the last revision of php5 before transferring to 5.3. This would make it easy to downgrade to 5.2 and/or comapre 5.2 to 5.3 comaptability for site maintainers. Please?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We did not make a port for php 5.0 when 5.1 came out, nor for 5.1 when 5.2 came out, and I don't really want to make one for 5.2 now that 5.3 is out. I am in the process of breaking php5 into many ports. So either I would have to repeat that effort for 5.2, or keep 5.2 as a monolithic port which would make it very different from the 5.3 port (but at present still like the php4 port since I haven't worked on splitting that one yet).

Still, this request has been made a few times before. Are there specific examples of things that don't work in 5.3 that worked in 5.2?

Until such a time as a port for 5.2 is created, you can follow this procedure to install php 5.2.

[nerdling (Jeremy Lavergne)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Still, this request has been made a few times before. Are there specific examples of things that don't work in 5.3 that worked in 5.2?

Wouldn't the change log have this information available to the site maintainers? Also, using php5-devel would keep them abreast of changes rather than being behind.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I don't think we're talking here about "site maintainers" (people writing and hosting PHP web sites); indeed, they should either upgrade their site to be PHP 5.3-compatible, or not upgrade their PHP installation to 5.3. Rather, I think we're talking about people who want to use others' PHP-based web apps, which may not yet be PHP 5.3-compatible.

[imadden@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

I don't think we're talking here about "site maintainers" (people writing and hosting PHP web sites); indeed, they should either upgrade their site to be PHP 5.3-compatible, or not upgrade their PHP installation to 5.3. Rather, I think we're talking about people who want to use others' PHP-based web apps, which may not yet be PHP 5.3-compatible.

That is a very good point. One example I can think of off the top of my head is something like Joomla. It has not been tested on PHP 5.3 yet, so where Joomla will still run on PHP 5.3, it runs very buggy. Being able to use PHP 5.2.10 until Joomla has been properly tested on PHP 5.3 would be very helpful.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

You already can go back to php 5.2 if needed. It's just not as easy a procedure as it would be if there were a separate php52 port.

[mikkel@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Still, this request has been made a few times before. Are there specific examples of things that don't work in 5.3 that worked in 5.2?

I think all big PHP systems like Drupal, TYPO3, Magento, etc. have problems with incompatibilities, if not for the core systems, then the wealth of plugins available. I know this to be a fact in Drupal. With all large systems there's probably a 6 months lead time before it's feasible to upgrade to 5.3, and even then many developers will prefer to stay on 5.2, since that's what's on most web servers nowadays, to avoid compatibility bugs when deploying code.

You already can go back to php 5.2 if needed. It's just not as easy a procedure as it would be if there were a separate php52 port.

Yeah, I used to use this approach on Leopard, but on Snow Leopard, the old php5 port doesn't compile.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

6 months is a long time to expect a user to deal with such a workaround, and the Snow Leopard problem (which would have to be fixed like it was in #19997) just adds to it.

I also see the PHP team is readying the release of 5.2.11 so there will still be new releases of php 5.2.x.

Sounds like I should make a php52 port after all.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Sounds like I should make a php52 port after all.

Done:

• r56566: add php52 version 5.2.10 based on php5 r53555
• r56567: merge r53631 from php5: fix build on Snow Leopard by adding -lresolv
• r56568: merge r54310 from php5: remove platform darwin 6 section
• r56569: merge r54581, r55531 and r55557 from php5: use php mirror group for master_sites
• r56575: merge r56403 from php5: add variant for suhosin patch

For now, php52 conflicts with php5 (and php5-devel).

[mikkel@…]

Great, thanks – I'm looking forward to trying it out :)

[josh@…]

When trying to install php52 with the 1.8.0 version of MacPorts for Snow Leopard the following error occurs:

port install php52 +apache2 +mysql5 +pear +sqlite +universal
--->  Computing dependencies for php52
--->  Fetching php52
--->  Attempting to fetch php-5.2.10.tar.bz2 from http://www.php.net/distributions/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for php52
--->  Extracting php52
--->  Applying patches to php52
--->  Configuring php52
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_php52/work/php-5.2.10" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-dependency-tracking --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --infodir=/opt/local/share/info --with-config-file-path=/opt/local/etc/php5 --with-config-file-scan-dir=/opt/local/var/db/php5 --enable-calendar --with-iconv=/opt/local --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-wddx --with-zlib=/opt/local --with-bz2=/opt/local --with-libxml-dir=/opt/local --with-gettext=/opt/local --with-libexpat-dir=/opt/local --with-xmlrpc --enable-soap --enable-bcmath --enable-mbstring --enable-dba --enable-zip --with-openssl=/opt/local --with-mhash=/opt/local --with-mcrypt=/opt/local --with-mime-magic --with-xsl=/opt/local --with-curl=/opt/local --with-pcre-regex=/opt/local --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/opt/local --with-png-dir=/opt/local --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/opt/local --with-ldap=/usr --with-kerberos=/usr --with-iodbc=/usr --with-apxs2=/opt/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_php52/work/mysql5 --with-pdo-mysql=/opt/local/bin/mysql_config5 --with-mysql-sock=/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock --with-mysqli=/opt/local/bin/mysql_config5 --with-sqlite --with-pdo-sqlite=/opt/local --enable-sqlite-utf8 --with-pear=/opt/local/lib/php " returned error 1
Command output: checking path to configuration file... /opt/local/etc/php5
checking where to scan for configuration files... /opt/local/var/db/php5
checking whether to enable safe mode by default... no
checking for safe mode exec dir... /usr/local/php/bin
checking whether to enable PHP's own SIGCHLD handler... no
checking whether to enable magic quotes by default... no
checking whether to explicitly link against libgcc... no
checking whether to enable short tags by default... yes
checking whether to enable dmalloc... no
checking whether to enable IPv6 support... yes
checking how big to make fd sets... using system default

Configuring extensions
checking size of long... (cached) 8
checking size of int... (cached) 4
checking for int32_t... yes
checking for uint32_t... yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for strtoll... yes
checking for atoll... yes
checking for strftime... (cached) yes
checking whether to enable LIBXML support... yes
checking libxml2 install dir... /opt/local
checking for xml2-config path... /opt/local/bin/xml2-config
checking whether libxml build works... no
configure: error: build test failed.  Please check the config.log for details.

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

My installed ports (all freshly installed on a new installation)

port installed

The following ports are currently installed:
  apache2 @2.2.13_2+darwin+preforkmpm (active)
  apr @1.3.8_0 (active)
  apr-util @1.3.9_0 (active)
  autoconf @2.64_2 (active)
  autoconf213 @2.13_1 (active)
  automake @1.11_0 (active)
  bzip2 @1.0.5_2+darwin (active)
  curl @7.19.6_0 (active)
  db46 @4.6.21_5 (active)
  expat @2.0.1_0 (active)
  freetype @2.3.9_0+macosx (active)
  gawk @3.1.7_0 (active)
  gettext @0.17_4 (active)
  gperf @3.0.4_0 (active)
  grep @2.5.4_0 (active)
  gsed @4.2.1_0 (active)
  help2man @1.36.4_1 (active)
  jpeg @6b_3 (active)
  libiconv @1.13_0 (active)
  libmcrypt @2.5.8_1 (active)
  libpng @1.2.38_0 (active)
  libtool @2.2.6a_0 (active)
  libxml @1.8.17_0+darwin (active)
  libxml2 @2.7.3_0 (active)
  libxslt @1.1.24_2 (active)
  m4 @1.4.13_0 (active)
  mhash @0.9.9.9_0 (active)
  mysql5 @5.0.85_0 (active)
  mysql5-server @5.0.85_0 (active)
  ncurses @5.7_0+darwin_10 (active)
  ncursesw @5.7_0+darwin_10 (active)
  openssl @0.9.8k_0+darwin (active)
  p5-locale-gettext @1.05_0 (active)
  pcre @7.9_0 (active)
  perl5 @5.8.9_0 (active)
  perl5.8 @5.8.9_3 (active)
  pkgconfig @0.23_1 (active)
  readline @6.0.000_1+darwin (active)
  sqlite3 @3.6.17_0+darwin_10 (active)
  tiff @3.8.2_3+macosx (active)
  zlib @1.2.3_2 (active)

Any advice on how to proceed? I had tried to previously install the php5 port but as previously noted it wouldn't compile on Snow Leopard.

Thanks.

[josh@…]

php52 config.log

[josh@…]

Update:

It seemed to be a conflict with the dependent ports compiled during the attempted php5 port and the php52 port. I was able to get a clean working install by doing:

port clean php52
port -f uninstall installed
port installed
port install grep
port install apache2
port install mysql5-server
port install php52 +apache2 +mysql5 +pear +sqlite

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Glad you got it working. If you encounter other issues, please file new tickets.