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Read Carefully! Breaking changes in compare with native PHP package

1. Console version /usr/bin/php74 is installed with php74-cli subpackage, php74 doesn't include it anymore!!!

2. PEAR and PECL are available as php74-pear and php74-pecl subpackages

3. All shared modules are respresented as stand-alone subpackages and are not included with php74 package anymore.

4. No more extensions in php.ini itself! Separate INI files for each extension are placed in /etc/php74/conf.d They are loaded in correct order according to priority

5. Modules: mysqlnd, mysqli and pdo_mysql are moved to single package php74-mysql

6. php74-xsl requires php74-xml and php74-dom to be installed

7. php74-enchant build with dependencies: libvoikko, hspell, hunspell, nuspell, aspell

Compiles with smaller patches. Add -std=gnu17 to CFLAGS, not CXXFLAGS. Use this patch I posted for php56. No test failures. el_aur seems to be MIA, no fixes to php56 either.

diff -pNaru5 a/ext/libxml/libxml.c b/ext/libxml/libxml.c
--- a/ext/libxml/libxml.c 2025-06-05 00:56:42.896602580 -0400
+++ b/ext/libxml/libxml.c 2025-06-05 00:57:27.933510840 -0400
@@ -34,10 +34,11 @@
 #include "ext/standard/info.h"
 #include "ext/standard/file.h"

 #if HAVE_LIBXML

+#include <ansidecl.h>
 #include <libxml/parser.h>
 #include <libxml/parserInternals.h>
 #include <libxml/tree.h>
 #include <libxml/uri.h>
 #include <libxml/xmlerror.h>

@el_aur can you fix the issues detailed below?

Another solution would be to install gcc13 and compile it with it. You would also need to update PKGBUILD like so :

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 02871df..2eebe43 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -515,8 +515,8 @@
 # BUILD them all
 ################################################################################
 build() {
+    export CC=gcc-13
     export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fPIC -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types"
     export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fPIC -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -std=c++17"
     if ((_phpbase <= 73)); then
         export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -fpermissive"
         export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -fpermissive"

Patching files works, thank you very much.

Thanks, that got me up and going.

I've worked around the build issues with patching files like this:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 02871df..2eebe43 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -515,8 +515,8 @@ _build_sapi() {
 # BUILD them all
 ################################################################################
 build() {
-    export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fPIC -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types"
-    export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fPIC -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -std=c++17"
+    export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fPIC -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -DATTRIBUTE_UNUSED="
+    export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fPIC -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types -std=c++17 -DATTRIBUTE_UNUSED="
     if ((_phpbase <= 73)); then
         export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -fpermissive"
         export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -fpermissive"

and for compiler errors had to patch some C files:

diff -u -r php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd.c php74.fixed/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd.c
--- php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd.c    2022-10-31 11:36:07.000000000 +0100
+++ php74.fixed/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd.c      2025-05-01 10:03:25.330466265 +0200
@@ -138,9 +138,9 @@
 static void php_image_filter_scatter(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS);

 /* End Section filters declarations */
-static gdImagePtr _php_image_create_from_string (zval *Data, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)());
-static void _php_image_create_from(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*func_p)(), gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)());
-static void _php_image_output(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, void (*func_p)());
+static gdImagePtr _php_image_create_from_string (zval *Data, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)(...));
+static void _php_image_create_from(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*func_p)(...), gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)(...));
+static void _php_image_output(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, void (*func_p)(...));
 static int _php_image_type(char data[12]);
 static void _php_image_convert(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type);

@@ -2330,7 +2330,7 @@

 /* {{{ _php_image_create_from_string
  */
-gdImagePtr _php_image_create_from_string(zval *data, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)())
+gdImagePtr _php_image_create_from_string(zval *data, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)(...))
 {
        gdImagePtr im;
        gdIOCtx *io_ctx;
@@ -2440,7 +2440,7 @@

 /* {{{ _php_image_create_from
  */
-static void _php_image_create_from(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*func_p)(), gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)())
+static void _php_image_create_from(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, gdImagePtr (*func_p)(...), gdImagePtr (*ioctx_func_p)(...))
 {
        char *file;
        size_t file_len;
@@ -2667,7 +2667,7 @@

 /* {{{ _php_image_output
  */
-static void _php_image_output(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, void (*func_p)())
+static void _php_image_output(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, void (*func_p)(...))
 {
        zval *imgind;
        char *file = NULL;
diff -u -r php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd_ctx.c php74.fixed/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd_ctx.c
--- php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd_ctx.c        2022-10-31 11:36:06.000000000 +0100
+++ php74.fixed/src/php-7.4.33/ext/gd/gd_ctx.c  2025-05-01 10:03:25.323466210 +0200
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 } /* }}} */

 /* {{{ _php_image_output_ctx */
-static void _php_image_output_ctx(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, void (*func_p)())
+static void _php_image_output_ctx(INTERNAL_FUNCTION_PARAMETERS, int image_type, char *tn, void (*func_p)(...))
 {
        zval *imgind;
        char *file = NULL;
diff -u -r php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/standard/scanf.c php74.fixed/src/php-7.4.33/ext/standard/scanf.c
--- php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/standard/scanf.c   2022-10-31 11:36:13.000000000 +0100
+++ php74.fixed/src/php-7.4.33/ext/standard/scanf.c     2025-05-01 10:03:25.490467498 +0200
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@
        int  base = 0;
        int  underflow = 0;
        size_t width;
-       zend_long (*fn)() = NULL;
+       zend_long (*fn)(...) = NULL;
        char *ch, sch;
        int  flags;
        char buf[64];   /* Temporary buffer to hold scanned number

Having errors trying to build this, around some of the libxml parts.

/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c:479:47: error: expected ‘;’, ‘,’ or ‘)’ before ‘ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED’
479 |                               int compression ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
|                                               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c: In function ‘php_libxml_shutdown’:
/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c:834:17: warning: ‘xmlRelaxNGCleanupTypes’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
834 |                 xmlRelaxNGCleanupTypes();
|                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c:41:
/usr/include/libxml2/libxml/relaxng.h:125:21: note: declared here
125 |                     xmlRelaxNGCleanupTypes      (void);
|                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c: In function ‘zm_startup_libxml’:
/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c:928:54: error: ‘php_libxml_output_buffer_create_filename’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘php_libxml_input_buffer_create_filename’?
928 |                 xmlOutputBufferCreateFilenameDefault(php_libxml_output_buffer_create_filename);
|                                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|                                                      php_libxml_input_buffer_create_filename
/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c:928:54: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c: In function ‘zm_activate_libxml’:
/home/evan/downloads/temp/php74/src/php-7.4.33/ext/libxml/libxml.c:941:54: error: ‘php_libxml_output_buffer_create_filename’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘php_libxml_input_buffer_create_filename’?
941 |                 xmlOutputBufferCreateFilenameDefault(php_libxml_output_buffer_create_filename);
|                                                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|                                                      php_libxml_input_buffer_create_filename

Any ideas?

Can confirm 7.4.33-8 builds and runs fine. Thanks. :-) I'm lucky I don't need neither PECL nor PEAR modules..

Have killed pear/pecl packages. Try now

I'm getting the same error building php74-pear.