Re: problem with "pear package" command

Stefan Neufeind wrote:

On 20 Jan 2004 at 16:37, Stijn de Reede wrote:

When I run the "pear package" command on my system to build HTML_BBCodeParser, it hangs for a long time after analyzing the last file. After a while it stops, and produces an empty tgz file of 7mb. I also tried to build DB_DataObject and HTML_Template_Xipe, with the same result. I could build packages before, but I changed a lot since then (Apache, PHP version, etc). Info: - Debian linux 2.4.20 - PHP Version 4.3.4 (4.3.4-1moolfreet) (see http://nautadereede.nl/phpinfo.php) - zlib support 1.1.4 - latest PEAR from http://go-pear.org/ installed in /usr/share/pear

Had the same problem running PHP / PEAR on a Debian-system. Haven't yet figured out why it's like that. Please try one thing: pear package --nocompress and see if that works without problems for you. Would be quite interesting to know. As a quickfix you can package the resulting tar- archive manually to get your usual .tgz. But as said: Only a quick- fix. I suspect the problem is the zlib shipped with Debian, although I can't proof it :-( If anybody got an idea I'd be happy to know. Regards Stefan

With the --nocompress option, it build the package ok. So it seems debian has got a problem with the php zlib extension. Btw, are these pear --options documented somewhere, or completely hidden? Regards, Stijn