Re: PEAR broken on current Mac OS on PowerPC?

David Gurney wrote: > Hi all. > > I didn't see this in the archives. > > I've built PHP 5.1.6 on three Macs now, one Intel and two PowerPC, under > OS 10.4.8. The Intel experience went fine. > > Things are broken on PowerPC. Both systems previously had only the > stock PHP4 that comes with OS X, and it was not activated. PEAR > consistently fails during "make install" of PHP5 with the following > message: > > Installing PEAR environment: /Library/PHP5/lib/php/ > php(17633) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=3825205248) failed (error code=3) > php(17633) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region > php(17633) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug > make[1]: *** [install-pear-installer] Segmentation fault > make: *** [install-pear] Error 2 > > I used the go-pear script, which appeared to complete fine and reported > version 1.4.1. But it made no difference. > > Any ideas? Thanks! This is a php error, perhaps a problem in your configuration line, but it looks more serious. I would suggest building php with --enable-debug and --disable-zend-memory-manager options, then when the fatal error happens, you'll get a dump that can be used with gdb to grab a backtrace. When you get that, report it to php-internals and see what they have to say. Thanks, Greg