On Mar 28, 2025, at 20:07, Horst B Simon wrote: > > I checked the MacPorts documentation, but did not understand on downgrading a > port. > I am trying to install pear using the phar download, but my version of php is > failing the install. > By searching on internet I found that it is a compatibility with libxml2, the > current installed version > is 2.13.2 and the information is that libxml2 2.13 is not compatible and > libxml2 2.12 should be working. > Is it possible that I can download and build libxml2 2.12 from MacPorts and > if so how to do it. > The older version of php is needed for Horde Webmail 5.22, that’s why I > cannot use php8.2 or higher.
Older versions of php are available in MacPorts however they don't build on newer versions of macOS at present. There are tickets. I will work on them eventually. I don't think I'm aware of an incompatibility between older php and newer libxml2 however it wouldn't surprise me. I will presumably discover these problems when I work on the tickets and will resolve them then. To downgrade libxml2, follow: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort Downgrading a central port like libxml2 will likely cause you all kinds of problems so I don't recommend it. Maybe revupgrade will notice and rebuild the affected ports.
