Re: problem with "pear package" command

On 21 Jan 2004 at 1:30, Stijn de Reede wrote: > 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? Yeah, one maintainer of Archive_Tar (from which also the zlib is called) and I tried to debug it once - but had to give up. Maybe somebody (you, Stijn?) has more luck investigating on that topic. It would be highly appreciated to get that working again on Debian. Regarding your options-question: Try "pear help [command]". In this case "pear help package" gives you: -Z, --nocompress Do not gzip the package file -n, --showname Print the name of the packaged file. Regards, Stefan