Installing pecl and pear on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, macOS 10.12 Sierra, macOS 10.13 High Sierra (< 10.13.3)

Question

So it looks like the new \'System Integrity Protection\' lockdown of /usr (among other directories) makes pear and pecl a non-starter. Has anyone found a workaround short of

Answer 1

This worked for me as of MacOS Sierra 10.12.1 for upgrading PHP, installing PEAR and V8

brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php

phpversion="$(php -v | tail -r | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 2 | cut -c 1,3)"
brew unlink php$phpversion

brew install php71
brew install autoconf

curl -O  http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar

echo -e "\nexport PATH=$HOME/pear/bin:$PATH \n"

source ~/.bash_profile

echo -e "\ninclude_path = '.:/Users/YOURUSERNAME/pear/share/pear/' \nextension=v8js.so \n" >> /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini

git clone https://github.com/phpv8/v8js ~/tmp/v8js && cd $_
./configure CXXFLAGS="-Wno-c++11-narrowing"
make
make test
make install

sudo apachectl restart