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

High Sierra setup:

• install Brew
• install PHP with Brew

There is preinstalled PEAR PACKAGE in

/usr/local/opt/php@/bin

from there you can run

pecl install xdebug

and you should have working PHP binary with Xdebug.