make-php

A simple script to build different PHP versions for development. It uses the debian alternatives system to replace the system-wide PHP binaries and allows resetting to defaults if the PHP binaries installed via the package manager should be used.

Installation

Dependencies

At least the following packages are needed to run this:

apt-get install  build-essential autoconf automake

A more complete set of build tools:

apt-get install  build-essential autoconf automake git curl pkg-config bison re2c libxml2-dev

You may also need these for some build options of PHP:

apt-get install  libicu-dev libmcrypt-dev libreadline-dev libxml2-dev libbz2-dev \
                 openssl libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev \
                 libfreetype6-dev libmm-dev libpq-dev

Clone Repo

After installing dependencies you can clone this repository. The location does not matter, but I use to put it under /srv/php-src:

git clone https://github.com/cebe/make-php /srv/php-src

You may want to adjust the BUILD_TARGET in the script. By default PHP binaries are installed to /srv/php.

GPG

The script will check the signatures of the PHP tar files it downloads, so you need to add the keys of the PHP maintainers to you GPG trust DB. You can do it manually, or use the make-php-keyring.sh script:

./make-php-keyring.sh

Usage

Building a PHP binary

Create a *.conf file for each build config. If you want to statically link pecl extensions into the binary you may list the names of the extensions in *.pecl.conf. See example.conf and example.pecl.conf for examples.

Run the script (assuming your config is myconfig.conf):

./make-php.sh myconfig 7.0.12

Afterwards you can use the switch-php.sh command to replace the existing /usr/bin/php* symlinks using debians update-alternatives system. ./switch-php.sh --reset will restore the original PHP version that may be installed by apt.

Tip: To enable the switch-php command, you can link it to /usr/local/bin: ln -s /srv/php-src/switch-php.sh /usr/local/bin/switch-php

Builing alpha/beta releases

If you want to install PHP versions that are not officially released or pre-releases like alpha versions, you can specify a URL for the file to download. E.g. to install PHP 7.2.0alpha3 use the following command:

./make-php.sh myconfig 7.2.0alpha3 https://downloads.php.net/~remi/php-7.2.0alpha3.tar.bz2 https://downloads.php.net/~remi/php-7.2.0alpha3.tar.bz2.asc

Applying patches

If you want to apply patches to the PHP source code, e.g. to fix some bugs or apply workarounds in your specific version, you can place a .patch file in the patches/php-$VERSION directory. All patch files found in that directory will be applied before building PHP.

E.g. to apply the fix for finding cURL on debian on PHP 7.1.8, you can create a file containing the patch in patches/php-7.1.8/curlfix.patch.