Update: 2009-09-24: Still waiting on an Entropy package for Snow Leopard? You have two choices if you need to get work done and can’t be bothered to wait: Downgrade back to Leopard (OS X 10.5) or start compiling PHP extensions until you have enough to get things done. I’ve created a new post on how to get some basic things working and helpful links to other common issues (segmentation faults anybody?)
Just a quick note to any Mac users who update from Leopard (10.5) to Snow Leopard (10.6) and use Marc Liyanage’s PHP package, entropy: Snow Leopard will hose your custom PHP setup. This isn’t really a fault of 10.6 and I’m not complaining about the upgrade. Actually, all things considered the upgrade was fairly seamless and without hiccup. It’s just that Apple let the installer get a little greedy and overwrite some existing configs.
Snow Leopard’s default PHP install uses 5.3.0 and includes what should be default extensions, such as GD, but does not include others like mcrypt. Our IT department is waiting for at least 5.3.2 to migrate so I still have a need to develop and test on 5.2.x, which means I either need to recompile an older version of PHP or use an existing package. Because this is the 21st century and I have better ways to spend my time I choose to go with an existing package. Unfortunately, OS X still does not have a unified package manager so I can’t just “yum php5.2.9” or something like that.
I’m still in the process of getting my environment working so I’ll list a few of the issues I’ve experienced and update this post as I resolve them.
- httpd-vhosts.conf is overwritten and you lose your custom vhosts. Oddly, /etc/hosts is left alone.
- Apache initializes but only serves up white pages. Error logs spit out “[notice] child pid xxxx exit signal Segmentation fault (11)”. No help from the tubes on this one.
- Trying to lipo out the x86_64 architecture from libphp5.so to force 64-bit mode did not help.
- Disabling all extensions listed in /usr/local/php5/php.d/ had no effect.
If you have any suggestions or have successfully installed a 5.2.9 entropy package on an upgraded 10.6, please leave a comment so I can get this mamma jamma working. I’ve created a new post describing my steps to get the 10.6 PHP install of 5.3.0 working with some basic extensions. All all comments should be directed toward that post.
Hey, any luck on solving this? getting same sig fault.
The short answer is: kind of.
I abandoned the Entropy 5.2.x package and compiled my own mhash and mcrypt extensions from the sources included in the PHP source. I haven’t checked back with Marc’s but I am just trying to hobble along with this setup until a fixed 5.2.x package is released.
I’ll update this post to include the steps I’ve taken and show how to roll your own PHP extensions. It’s actually really simple and doesn’t require a PHP recompile. Sounds obvious but it took me a minute to realize that, heh.