Re: Install PHP 8.1.12 on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 11:21 PM Richard <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > Date: Saturday, November 12, 2022 22:47:15 +0530
> > From: Kaushal Shriyan <[email protected]>
> >
> > I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). I have enabled
> > both epel and IUS repositories to install
> > https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.1.12. It is not available.
> >
> > Do I need to install and enable any other repository to install PHP
> > 8.1.12?
> >
>
> Given that Centos 7 is no longer under active support (it moved to
> security support a bit over two years ago) and php 8.1.12 was only
> released about 2 weeks ago, you'll likely need to compile it from
> source if you need it any time soon. I'd suggest that you build rpms,
> rather than doing a direct install as that will make it easier to
> manage your php installs going forward.
>
> Before embarking on trying to build something like this from source
> it is often good to make certain that one absolutely needs the very
> latest release. It's possible that there is some "must have" feature
> or a fix to a gaping security issue that isn't otherwise addressable,
> so it's worth doing the research. Look at the changelogss and CVEs
> since the last repository release available and evaluate the issues.
>

Thanks Richard for the email response. I downloaded
https://www.php.net/distributions/php-8.1.12.tar.gz in /opt directory on
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)

#cd /opt/
#tar zxvf php-8.1.12.tar.gz
[root@ php-8.1.12]# ls -l
total 3512
drwxr-xr-x  3  501 games      80 Oct 25 17:30 azure
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games    1138 Oct 25 17:30 azure-pipelines.yml
drwxr-xr-x  2  501 games    4096 Oct 25 17:30 build
-rwxr-xr-x  1  501 games    4012 Oct 25 17:30 buildconf
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games     346 Oct 25 17:30 buildconf.bat
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   11121 Oct 25 17:30 CODING_STANDARDS.md
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   310345 Nov 12 18:11 config.log
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root       58 Nov 12 18:11 config.nice
-rwxr-xr-x  1  501 games 2536110 Oct 25 17:30 configure
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   48813 Oct 25 17:30 configure.ac
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   20251 Oct 25 17:30 CONTRIBUTING.md
drwxr-xr-x  2  501 games     218 Oct 25 17:30 docs
drwxr-xr-x 74  501 games    4096 Oct 25 17:30 ext
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   23894 Oct 25 17:30 EXTENSIONS
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root        6 Nov 12 18:11 include
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root        6 Nov 12 18:11 libs
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games    3204 Oct 25 17:30 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x  3  501 games    4096 Oct 25 17:30 main
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     2719 Nov 12 18:11 Makefile.fragments
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    33337 Nov 12 18:11 Makefile.objects
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   32787 Oct 25 17:30 NEWS
drwxr-xr-x  2  501 games     100 Oct 25 17:30 pear
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   72762 Oct 25 17:30 php.ini-development
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   72908 Oct 25 17:30 php.ini-production
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games    5076 Oct 25 17:30 README.md
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   28525 Oct 25 17:30 README.REDIST.BINS
-rwxr-xr-x  1  501 games  140834 Oct 25 17:30 run-tests.php
drwxr-xr-x 10  501 games     119 Oct 25 17:30 sapi
drwxr-xr-x  4  501 games     105 Oct 25 17:30 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 10  501 games     119 Oct 25 17:30 tests
drwxr-xr-x  2  501 games      83 Oct 25 17:30 travis
drwxr-xr-x  2  501 games     140 Oct 25 17:30 TSRM
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games   27538 Oct 25 17:30 UPGRADING
-rw-r--r--  1  501 games    7489 Oct 25 17:30 UPGRADING.INTERNALS
drwxr-xr-x  3  501 games    4096 Oct 25 17:30 win32
drwxr-xr-x  5  501 games    8192 Oct 25 17:30 Zend
[root@ php-8.1.12]#
[root@ php-8.1.12]# pwd
/opt/php-8.1.12
[root@ php-8.1.12]#

I do not see the rpm spec file to create a rpm binary for rpm based OS such
as CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) as per the above output. Please
guide me.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal