Re: go-pear doesn't like env vars

On 1/2/06, Maarten van Dantzich <mvd@thinkling.com> wrote: > I'm new to PEAR and hoping that reporting my experience here may help > suggest improvements to the installer. > > > > I just spent an hour figuring out why PEAR wouldn't install into my home > > directory on my ISP's host (LAMP-based). > > > > After trying several routes, in the end I figured out that in specifying the > install directories, one cannot supply a base path ("prefix") that contains > an environment variable or otherwise needs expansion. "~/" doesn't work, nor > does $HOME. If you use the latter, the installer may create a directory > called $HOME, creating the danger of an unwitting user trying to rm $HOME.. > (ouch!) > > > > I repeatedly tried paths containing ~ and $HOME because the default paths > that are suggested use "$prefix", giving the misleading impression that env > vars are OK to use. > > > > I didn't notice any mention of this in the FAQ or other install docs. > ENV vars are normally expanded by your shell. AFAIK, PHP has no built-in way to expand ENV vars within a script. This should probably be mentioned somewhere in the manual...care to give us quick patch to the docs? -- Justin Patrin