Re: pear on OS X?

<jimray@ibiblio.org> wrote : > I'm developing on an OS X box and will be hosting on either a windows > (yech) or linux (yay!) machine, depending on decisions that are beyond my > control. I'm using pear for things like DB abstraction, and SMARTY for > templates. > > My question is: how do I use Pear on my OS X box? I'm running 10.1.5 > currently, will upgrade to Jaguar in the next month. I've got the packages > that came standard with the install and they work beautifully. Anything > else I need to know? I haven't been able to set up the package > manager--has anyone been able to make this work? Also, when I want to > install more packages--where do I go? I can't find a central repository > and the CVS documentation hasn't been written. > > Any tips on using Pear on an OS X machine would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks. PEAR works on MACOSX like on any other Linux boxes. From the command line, try 'which pear' to check if it is installed. If not, use the go-pear script to install it. Also, check for 'which php' first as you will need php compiled with --enable-cli option. If you don't manage to recompile php with these new options, use version 4.3pre1 or a more recent one, it compiles much more easily. Also, check in /usr/local/bin for php and pear as this directory are not in PATH. You might need to set the environment variable to this directory using 'setenv' command. Good luck, Bertrand Mansion Mamasam