Re: Non-conflicting PHP 5 and 7 builds

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jordan Gigov <coladict@gmail.com> wrote: > Most developers who hope to move a site to PHP 7 will still have to > maintain PHP 5 sites for a long time, requiring the presence of both. > However, building either one, even with the --program-suffix > configuration option still overwrites some files, like phpize and all the > headers in ${prefix}/includes/. > > It took me a week to solve this problem for myself and everyone else in our > company, but I have proper working patches for it now. > They have not been submitted as pull requests yet, because I first want to > hear what you think of them. > > Here are the links: > > https://github.com/coladict/php-src/tree/php5-migration > https://github.com/coladict/php-src/tree/php7-migration > Hi, Jordan. I've also been manually keeping different PHP versions installed, but I took another approach: each version has its own prefix in /opt. /opt/php/php-5.6.25 /opt/php/php-7.0.10 And each x.y version is a symlink to the latest release I've tried: /opt/php/php-5.6 -> /opt/php/php-5.6.25 /opt/php/php-7.0 -> /opt/php/php-7.0.10 On some servers and on my own desktop I also keep symlinks in /usr/local/bin to their respective binaries in /opt. I'm mentioning this because it seems to work and doesn't require any change on PHP itself. Unless I'm missing something. This is the script I use to fetch and build new versions: https://github.com/garotosopa/misterbin