PHP Switcher 5.0.0 - Error on compiling "need to specify operation before --basepath option

**Starlight** · Sep 28th 2019

First of all thank you for the latest release of PHP Switcher.

When compiling PHP versions with the following command line:

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perl /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/php_compiler.pl --register --force-last --install-dir /opt/phpswitcher/%compDate% --runtime-dependencies --verbose --zts %phpVersions%

I get an error "An error occurred while setup of PHP build environment: need to specify operation before --basepath option"

with the following stack:

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[INFO] Scanning PHP site for the PHP 7.1 sources...
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::execute: /usr/bin/wget --prefer-family=IPv4 --quiet --spider http://php.net/distributions/php-7.1.32.tar.gz
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::execute: /usr/bin/wget --prefer-family=IPv4 --quiet --spider http://php.net/distributions/php-7.1.33.tar.gz
[INFO] Found PHP 7.1 sources at http://php.net/distributions/php-7.1.32.tar.gz
[INFO] Downloading PHP 7.1.32 sources into the /usr/local/src/phpswitcher directory...
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::execute: /usr/bin/wget --prefer-family=IPv4 -t 1 -O /usr/local/src/phpswitcher/php-7.1.32.tar.gz http://php.net/distributions/php-7.1.32.tar.gz
[INFO] Extracting the PHP 7.1.32 archive into /usr/local/src/phpswitcher/php-7.1.32 ...
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::executeNoWait: /bin/tar -xzf /usr/local/src/phpswitcher/php-7.1.32.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src/phpswitcher
[INFO] Setup PHP build environment...
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::execute: /bin/chmod -R 0750 /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/hook.d/*
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::executeNoWait: /usr/sbin/cowbuilder create --distribution jessie --architecture amd64 --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/psw-debian-jessie.cow --configfile /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/.pbuilderrc --hookdir /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/hook.d
[DEBUG] iMSCP::LockFile::release: Releasing exclusive lock on /var/lock/psw-php-compiler.lock
[ERROR] main: An error occurred while setup of PHP build environment: need to specify operation before --basepath option

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What is wrong with --architecture amd64? How to solve this?

With --no-chroot it runs.

**Nuxwin** · Sep 29th 2019

Quote from Starlight

I get an error "An error occurred while setup of PHP build environment: need to specify operation before --basepath option"

See also PHPSwitcher 5.0 - need to specify operation before --basepath option (duplicate report).

Quote from Starlight

What is wrong with --architecture amd64? How to solve this?

What do you mean? Why do you think this has something to do with the architecture?

**Nuxwin** · Sep 29th 2019

Starlight

Found the cause... In older cowbuilder versions (as provided by Debian Jessie and Ubuntu Xenial Xerus repositories) the create command must be passed as an option style command, that is: --create instead of create... Similar problem should exist for the update command...

This is due to change in cowbuilder... Option style command are not longer recommented but still supported by all versions so, I'll switch to option style command...

Basically put:

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DIST=jessie ARCH=amd64 /usr/sbin/cowbuilder create --distribution jessie --architecture amd64 --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/psw-debian-jessie.cow --configfile /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/.pbuilderrc --hookdir /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/hook.d

will lead to:

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need to specify operation before --basepath option

with older cowbuilder versions where commands were only passed as option style commands while:

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DIST=jessie ARCH=amd64 /usr/sbin/cowbuilder --create --distribution jessie --architecture amd64 --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/psw-debian-jessie.cow --configfile /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/.pbuilderrc --hookdir /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/hook.d

will work with any version, even through, option style command are not longer recommended in latest cowbuilder version:

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cowdancer (0.85) unstable; urgency=medium
* cowbuilder.8: Don't document the option-style commands; they're confusing
and no longer recommended
* parameter.c: Allow commands to come later; deprecation warnings not given,
since at least one reverse dependency does not call cowbuilder correctly
(Closes: #852434)
-- James Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:16:13 +0000

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Sorry for the disagreement.

**Nuxwin** · Sep 29th 2019

Starlight Viktor

Will be fixed in version 5.0.1 but for now:

patch.png

**Starlight** · Sep 29th 2019

After updating to 5.0.1 I got another error:

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[INFO] Executing the clean, install MAKE(1) target(s) for PHP 7.1.32...
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::executeNoWait: /usr/sbin/cowbuilder --execute --autocleanaptcache --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/psw-debian-jessie.cow --configfile /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/.pbuilderrc --bindmounts /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler /usr/local/src/phpswitcher/php-7.1.32 /opt/phpswitcher/20190929 --hookdir /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/Debian/hook.d -- /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/pbuilder/make_wrapper.sh --directory /usr/local/src/phpswitcher/php-7.1.32 --makefile /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/Makefile PREFIX=/opt/phpswitcher/20190929 PHP_QUILT_PATCH_DIR=/var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler/patches/7.1 BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=5 zts clean install
[...]
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
I: user script /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.14158/tmp/hooks/F10psw-setup-ondrej-sury-php-repo finished
I: user script /var/cache/pbuilder/build/cow.14158/tmp/hooks/F20psw-install-php-build-dependencies starting
I: Copying back the cached apt archive contents
I: unmounting /var/www/imscp/gui/plugins/PhpSwitcher/PhpCompiler filesystem
I: unmounting /usr/local/src/phpswitcher/php-7.1.32 filesystem
I: unmounting /opt/phpswitcher/20190929 filesystem
I: unmounting dev/pts filesystem
I: unmounting run/shm filesystem
I: unmounting proc filesystem
-> Cleaning COW directory
forking: rm -rf /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.14158
[DEBUG] iMSCP::LockFile::release: Releasing exclusive lock on /var/lock/psw-php-compiler.lock
[ERROR] main: An error occurred while executing MAKE(1) target(s) for PHP 7.1.32: I: unlink for ilistfile /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.14158/.ilist failed, it didn't exist?
/tmp/hooks/F10psw-setup-ondrej-sury-php-repo: line 16: /usr/bin/wget: No such file or directory
gpg: can't open `/tmp/ondrej-apt-key': No such file or directory
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
/tmp/hooks/F20psw-install-php-build-dependencies: line 22: /usr/bin/mk-build-deps: No such file or directory

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Any idea?

To re-run, I also need to clean up the build directory. Could be an improvement before starting the build process:

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rm -r /var/cache/pbuilder/psw-debian-jessie.cow/

**Nuxwin** · Sep 29th 2019

Starlight

I'll investigate for the errors. The cowbuilder version from Debian jessie and Ubuntu xenial seem to not work very good... The extra package as passed though the EXTRAPACKAGES variable from the .pbuilderrc configuraiton file are not taken into account (not installed) explaining the error.

Regarding the cleanup, you should not have to do that. Doing this lead to full creation (debootstrap process) of the build environment each time your run the php_compiler.pl script while it should be created only once. The workflow is as follows:

Setup build environment
- Already exist: update
- Do not already exist: create

Build of a PHP version:
- Install PHP build dependencies inside the chroot
- Execute the MAKE(1) command inside the chroot

Look at the script for more details.

BTW: Next time please, create one thread per issue. Best would be to report those issues on github but we need first your github account to give you access to the private repository.

**Nuxwin** · Sep 30th 2019

Starlight

All issues reported in this thread were fixed in our git repository. The fixes will part of version 5.0.2.

Thank you for your report.

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PHP Switcher 5.0.0 - Error on compiling "need to specify operation before --basepath option

Nuxwin Sep 29th 2019

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