PECL != Siberia

With the latest PEAR installer (version 0.90), PECL extensions are now built and installed during "pear install/upgrade" on Unix systems. First: upgrade PEAR to 0.9 with "pear upgrade PEAR". If you have the xmms libraries and php_gtk installed, you can see it in action by doing simply "pear install xmms". The output is like this: downloading xmms-0.2.tgz ... ...done: 11,968 bytes 4 source files, building running: phpize PHP Api Version : 20020307 Zend Module Api No : 20010901 Zend Extension Api No : 20020429 Xmms library install dir? [autodetect] : building in /var/tmp/pear-build-ssb/xmms-0.2 running: /tmp/pear8AzLoo/xmms-0.2/configure --with-xmms running: make xmms.so copied to /tmp/pear8AzLoo/xmms-0.2/xmms.so install ok: xmms 0.2 Add one or more -v options to pear to see more details (pear -v ...) To make your own, use PECL/xmms/package.xml or PECL/mailparse/package.xml as examples. Mailparse is a good example of a simple, standalone PECL package that uses no external libraries. Xmms is more advanced, it requires an external library, as well as php-gtk, and it also does a few substitutions in installed scripts (gtkxmms). Remember to use "pear pv" (package-validate) to sanity-check package.xml files before committing. - Stig