I am trying to build PHP 5.2.5 for an RPM, on a system which already has PHP 5.2.4 installed (I built that RPM several months ago). In order to build the RPM, I first want to make and install into a temporary local directory, as an unprivileged user. The build fails with this error:
Installing PEAR environment: /hlg/rpmbuild/buildroot/php-5.2.5-1- manual/usr/local/lib/php/download directory "/tmp/pear/cache" is not writeable. Change download_dir config variable to a writeable dir I have done this in the past and did not encounter this problem. I built a PHP 5.2.4 RPM in the fall to replace a PHP 5.2.4 RPM I had built months earlier, which was already installed and in use, so I should have run into the same problem then. I get this problem now with both 5.2.4 and 5.2.5. Here is the make command I used, and context around the error: http://pastebin.com/f5c6ff39a The key, I think, is the INSTALL_ROOT I defined for php's make. In the past, I believe this affected the pear build as well; now, it seems the pear build done by the php Makefile does not look at this, and instead uses the same temp dir and subdirectories as it would use at runtime, which is what puts it in conflict with what's already installed and in use on the system. However, I can't figure out what changed in PHP such that INSTALL_ROOT used to be honored but now isn't. [ I filed this as a bug: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44354 ] What's the right way to get the php build to install into a local directory at build time, run under an unprivileged user, without changing the default directories it will use at run time? -- Cos
