[timmerk]

Hi,

I'm trying to use the pear binary to download and install some packages for PHP. The path is correct that it installs the stuff to, it lists the installed packages correctly, it can remove packages correctly, and when installing, it does this:

timmerk$ pear install db
downloading DB-1.7.6.tgz ...
Starting to download DB-1.7.6.tgz (124,807 bytes)
............................done: 124,807 bytes

and then just hangs right before the installing part. This happens even if run as root.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[timmerk]

I found the problem, it's a bug in PHP regarding the zlib library. It doesn't like OS X's static zlib. If you compile zlib as a shared library, it all works.

It has been filed in the PHP bug database.