Installing PHP Phar Extension on PHP 5.3

Question

PHP

There are PHP-5.3.6 sources. When configuring, I also set the path where the PEAR packages will be installed ( --with-pear=/usr/local/lib/php/pear ). At the end of the configuration, it issues:

PEAR package PHP_Archive not installed: generated phar will require PHP's phar extension be enabled.

There is no ./configure option for Phar in the Phar section of php.net , moreover, if we run the command:

[email protected]:~/php-5.3.6# ./configure --help | grep phar
  --disable-phar          Disable phar support

then we will see only the option that disables Phar support, plus the above section of the php.net website directly says: "The Phar extension is built into PHP as of PHP version 5.3.0" . All this seems to hint to us that the "Phar extension" is already enabled by default in PHP 5.3.

Why is he complaining then?

Note: you might think that I have --disable-phar in the configuration options, that's why he complains, but it's not, I do not include such an option.

Answer 1

When configuring, I also include the installation of PEAR in the options

so why are you doing this if it says that it is built-in?

Answer 2

you again =))
PEAR package PHP_Archive not installed: generated phar will require PHP's phar extension be enabled.
literally means that the PHP installer determined that the PEAR package PHP_Archive is not in the system (no longer! he was not going to install it, he will check for it). and since it doesn't exist, the phar (external utility, not a module) it built will use PHP's built-in phar module. and therefore it would be nice to have it included in php, as if make install tells us.