php7 and pecl-pdflib fails

[Andy Wodfer]

Thanks Matthew!

That fixed it. I never export to PDF anyways so this is perfect.

Thanks for your help!

Best,
Andy

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2016/04/21 15:21, Andy Wodfer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently upgraded to 10.3 REL on a test server. I'm trying to install
> all
> > the latest versions for Apache, mysql, php and so on.
> >
> > php7 is installed and works perfectly with apache. However, I couldn't
> > install the extension pecl-pdflib from the php7 extensions port, it fails
> > with the message doesn't supprt php7.
> >
> > ===>   phpMyAdmin-4.6.0 depends on file:
> > /usr/local/lib/php/20151012/openssl.so - found
> > ===>   Returning to build of phpMyAdmin-4.6.0
> > ===>   phpMyAdmin-4.6.0 depends on file:
> /usr/local/lib/php/20151012/pdf.so
> > - not found
> > ===>  pecl-pdflib-3.0.4 cannot be installed: doesn't work with lang/php70
> > port (doesn't support PHP 70).
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/print/pecl-pdflib
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop.
> > make: stopped in /usr/ports/databases/phpmyadmin
> >
> > Does this mean I can't install phpmyadmin for now or is there a way
> around
> > this? pecl-pdflib hasn't been updated for a couple of years it seems..
> >
> > Anyone?
>
> I believe phpMyAdmin itself is compatible with php7 -- but I haven't
> personally tested that.  Even though I'm the maintainer for phpMyAdmin,
> I don't use it that often nowadays: most of my database needs are served
> by postgresql at the moment.
>
> pecl-pdflib as you have found out is not compatible with php7.  You
> should be able to get phpMyAdmin to install by turning off the PDF
> option.  (typing: 'make config' in ${PORTSDIR}/databases/phpmyadmin is
> one way to do that.)
>
> In fact, all that option setting does is tell the packaging system that
> PMA does or doesn't depend on the PDF modules used by PHP.  You get
> exactly the same content for the PMA application either way and it will
> autodetect the lack of a PDF module and adjust accordingly.  Without PDF
> support you can't export your DB schema as a nicely formatted PDF
> document.  AFAIR that's pretty much all the effect of not having it.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
>
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