bad(?) installation

Hi, all -- [I am not-so-new to php but very new to PEAR. So far it == CPAN in my head, right or wrong, so please help me understand it as necessary as well as perhaps :-) answer my questions.] I have two FreeBSD (4.5-RELEASE, php 4.2.3 ; 4.8-RELEASE, php 4.3.3rc1) servers which *look* like they have PEAR installed but have some problems since I can't install HTTP_Request on either. In looking at my phpinfo() output on the first server, I see that the CLI was built with --disable-pear and no include_path, so I'll skip that one for the moment. The other one looks fine, though. bash-2.05a$ uname -rn www.locationscout.com 4.8-RELEASE bash-2.05a$ uname -rn www.locationscout.com 4.8-RELEASE bash-2.05a$ echo '<?php phpinfo(); ?>' | php -q | egrep -i 'config|pear|ini' Configure Command => './configure' '--enable-versioning' '--enable-memory-limit' '--with-layout=GNU' '--with-zlib-dir=/usr' '--disable-all' '--with-regex=php' '--with-pear' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/sbin/apxs' '--enable-ctype' '--enable-exif' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--enable-gd-jis-conv' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr/local' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr/local' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/local' '--with-gettext=/usr/local' '--with-imap=/usr/local' '--with-mcrypt=/usr/local' '--with-mysql=/usr/local' '--enable-overload' '--with-pcre-regex=yes' '--enable-posix' '--with-readline' '--enable-session' '--enable-tokenizer' '--enable-xml' '--with-expat-dir=/usr/local' '--with-zlib=yes' '--prefix=/usr/local' 'i386-portbld-freebsd4.8' Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/etc/php.ini Configuration include_path => .:/usr/local/share/pear => .:/usr/local/share/pear bash-2.05a$ ls -aF /usr/local/lib/php /usr/local/share/pear/ /usr/local/lib/php: ./ Archive/ HTTP/ PEAR/ docs/ ../ Console/ Mail/ XML/ tests/ .registry/ DB/ Net/ build/ 20020429/ File/ OS/ data/ /usr/local/share/pear/: ./ .filemap .registry/ ../ .lock bootstrap/ [Please work around the line breaks; they probably make everything easier to read anyway.] The HTTP and XML are there because I tried to use pear to install the HTTP_Request and HTTP_Client, but here's what I get: bash-2.05a$ sudo pear install HTTP_Request HTTP_Client downloading HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz ... Starting to download HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz (11,856 bytes) .....done: 11,856 bytes For this remote PEAR operation you need to install the XML_RPC package OK, so I tried to install XML_RPC both with them and separately: bash-2.05a$ sudo pear install HTTP_Request HTTP_Client XML_RPC downloading HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz ... Starting to download HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz (11,856 bytes) .....done: 11,856 bytes For this remote PEAR operation you need to install the XML_RPC package bash-2.05a$ sudo pear install XML_RPC HTTP_Request HTTP_Client downloading XML_RPC-1.0.4.tgz ... Starting to download XML_RPC-1.0.4.tgz (11,991 bytes) .....done: 11,991 bytes downloading HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz ... Starting to download HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz (11,856 bytes) ...done: 11,856 bytes For this remote PEAR operation you need to install the XML_RPC package bash-2.05a$ sudo pear install XML_RPC downloading XML_RPC-1.0.4.tgz ... Starting to download XML_RPC-1.0.4.tgz (11,991 bytes) .....done: 11,991 bytes install ok: XML_RPC 1.0.4 It *looks* like I've successfully installed XML_RPC, but it didn't work yesterday; I got the same "you need XML_RPC" error, but today I don't. Hmmm... An ls now shows XML in the /usr/local/share/pear dir, too! So now I try to install HTTP_Request and HTTP_Client again and get bash-2.05a$ sudo pear install HTTP_Request HTTP_Client downloading HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz ... Starting to download HTTP_Request-1.2.tgz (11,856 bytes) .....done: 11,856 bytes Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /usr/local/share/pear/bootstrap/PEAR/Common.php on line 1859 and now I'm good and stuck again. Can anyone give me any clues for where to go next? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!