stevegrunwell/runkit7-installer

Composer package to automate the installation of Runkit7 in development + CI environments

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runkit7-installer's Issues

Automatically create php-common .ini files

When running install-runkit.sh, it would be helpful to automatically be able to enable Runkit in PHP; in order to do so, we may need to create /etc/php/7.x/mods-available/runkit.ini with the following content:

; configuration for php common module
; priority=20
extension=runkit.so

With this file in place, the script should be able to run phpenmod to automatically enable the module within PHP.

Cannot install, php_dir for channel "pecl.php.net" is not writeable by the current user

When running the install-runkit.sh script on VVV, I run into the following error:

$ ./vendor/bin/install-runkit.sh
Installing Runkit7...
Downloading Runkit7 from https://github.com/runkit7/runkit7/releases/download/1.0.5b1/runkit-1.0.5b1.tgz
Cannot install, php_dir for channel "pecl.php.net" is not writeable by the current user

It appears that VVV's default pecl configuration uses /usr/share/php, which has 755 permissions and is owned/grouped "root" by default (which is reasonable):

$ pecl config-get php_dir
/usr/share/php

The documentation should be updated to note that running the install-runkit.sh script may require the use of sudo.

Need better ways to verify whether or not PECL is available

I just installed the runkit7-installer on a site using Travis CI, and the build failed due to the VM not being able to find PECL, even though it was previously available on the box.

Verify phpize is present

When installing this package for a Laravel Homestead app, I received the following output:

$ sudo ./vendor/bin/install-runkit.sh
Installing Runkit7...
Downloading Runkit7 from https://github.com/runkit7/runkit7/releases/download/1.0.5b1/runkit-1.0.5b1.tgz
13 source files, building
running: phpize
sh: 1: phpize: not found
ERROR: `phpize' failed
Runkit7 has been installed and activated!

There are two issues here:

1. We should be verifying that phpize is present — that's the php7.x-dev package for apt.
2. There should most certainly not be a success message when the installation has failed.

Update to more recent versions of runkit7

At the time of this ticket, runkit7 has alpha releases for version 4.x, yet we're still loading version 1.x.

It's worth noting that the 3.x branch only supports PHP 7.2 or newer, so older releases would need to be installed for PHP 7.0 and 7.1.