http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/02/27/freebsd-php-and-pecl en-us 40 <p>I was helping move a legacy <span class="caps">PHP</span> app to a new server, and found it needed a <span class="caps">PECL</span> extension (dbx).</p> <p>After installing <span class="caps">PEAR</span>, I got the following error:</p> <pre> <code> [root@machine php]# pecl install something Fatal error: Call to undefined function preg_match() in /usr/local/share/pear/PEAR/Frontend/CLI.php on line 70 </code> </pre><p>It turns out that the problem is that within FreeBSD&#8217;s installation of <span class="caps">PECL</span>, it calls <span class="caps">PHP</span> from the command line with the -n flag. a.k.a. &#8212;no-php-ini</p> <p>This prevents /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini from getting loaded, and thus there is no <span class="caps">PCRE</span> support.</p> <p>You can work around it by removing &#8220;-n&#8221; from inside the pecl script.</p> Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:55:00 -0500 urn:uuid:e1633eb1-7fbb-4ea9-af87-8e183f6ad67f Kevin Way http://blog.insidesystems.net/articles/2007/02/27/freebsd-php-and-pecl FreeBSD System Administration PHP