Testing PHP 5.3 alpha1

published on 2008|08|03

Finally Johannes Schlüter baked a first alpha-tarball for PHP 5.3. The new version contains a huge amount of new features, like closures, namespaces and late static binding. Such a huge amount requires thorough testing: if you are using a PHP application you would like to see fully working with our brand new version or you are developing a PHP application, this is your chance to make sure everything will go smoothly. If you are a web hosting provider, do your performance benchmarks now!
If you are, accidentally, using the Gentoo Linux distribution, I have something for you: in my personal PHP overlay you can find an ebuild for PHP 5.3.0_alpha1. A few warnings: currently, ext/fileinfo does not compile because of #45636 and of course I did not test all possible USE-flag combinations. If you experience problems with it, just leave a comment here.

Tags: Gentoo, PHP, Testing

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smf68 answers:

published on 2008|08|05, 16:32h

Thanks a lot for your ebuild! It works fine, there is just a little problem with the 70_mod_php5.conf it installs in /etc/apache2/modules.d

Where it says "AddDirectoryIndex index.php index.phtml" it should actually be "DirectoryIndex index.php index.phtml", shouldn’t it? At least it worked for me, then.

Great stuff ;)

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Lars Strojny supposes:

published on 2008|08|05, 20:15h

Thanks. This was an apache 2.2 vs. 2.0 issue. Fixed in Subversion.

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David Persson states:

published on 2009|02|05, 20:15h

Thank you for the fresh ebuilds. Nowhere else can one find recent 5.3 ebuilds on the net…

There’s just one big problem which keeps me from using your overlay:

A /usr/local/portage/layman/php-overlay/dev-lang/php/files/snapshots
svn: REPORT von »/php-overlay/!svn/vcc/default«: Chunk delimiter was invalid (http://svn.usrportage.de)

The "Chunk delimiter was invalid"-Error seems to occur with older svn and/or mod_svn as far as i was able to research that stuff. It most often happens with big files ~>10MB which in this case is the cvs checkout tarball.

Do you know of an alternate location where I can get 5.3 ebuilds?

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