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

Answer 2

When brew is used and not linked, use:

brew install php@5.6
brew unlink php@5.6

$(brew --prefix php@5.6)/bin/pecl
$(brew --prefix php@5.6)/bin/pear

Answer 3

For macOS Mojave 10.14.4 just use /local instead of /usr when asked for "Installation base ($prefix)" location.

Answer 4

Add suffix --with-pear to install pear and pecl
See example below

brew install php --with-pear
brew reinstall php --with-pear

Answer 5

You shouldn't install binaries into system /usr, use /usr/local instead.

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The pecl and pear commands should come along with PHP when installing via Homebrew.

Here is the example installing PHP with the latest Homebrew:

brew install php

or the specific version:

brew install php@7.1
brew install php@5.6

To find your pecl and pear commands, run:

find -L "$(brew --prefix php)" -name pecl -o -name pear

or:

find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)" -name pecl -o -name pear

If you don't have it, consider uninstalling previous PHP version or run reinstall instead.

You can also try to relink it by:

brew unlink php@7.1 && brew link php@7.1 --dry-run && brew link --overwrite --force php@7.1

Otherwise, link it manually:

ln -vs "$(find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)/bin" -name pecl)" /usr/local/bin
ln -vs "$(find -L "$(brew --prefix php@7.1)/bin" -name pear)" /usr/local/bin

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Alternatively download Pear it directly as a Phar package:

curl -o /usr/local/bin/pear http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pear

or with this following one-liner (will work on Linux, but not on Unix):

curl -sL http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar | sudo install -v -m755 /dev/stdin /usr/local/bin/pear

Answer 6

High Sierra setup:

• install Brew
• install PHP with Brew

There is preinstalled PEAR PACKAGE in

/usr/local/opt/php@<your_version>/bin

from there you can run

pecl install xdebug

and you should have working PHP binary with Xdebug.