Description: ------------ there are a couple of BC breaks in the current php-src master(which will be PHP 7.0) which causes make install to fail when installing pear. I've started working on a Pull Request against pear-core with the necessary changes to make it compatible with PHP 7.0, I will drop a comment when it is ready to be merged.

Things to fix: 1. new-by-reference: &new 2. magic quotes 3. ereg functions 4. constructor names; we have to use __construct() 5. mark static methods as static See the UPGRADING file at http://git.php.net/?p=php- src.git;a=blob;f=UPGRADING;h=bb37a05d8aa8af3cc2e599acbd4ae0e7f52fbd33;hb= 4d3e4d3bf994739681613f9061d056e10f731b65

4) removal of php4 constructors not yet voted/accepted (there is a heated ongoing debate as we never deprecated it). 5) the current status is that we won't remove the ability to call functions statically without marked as static, we will just won't "assume" $this from the caller context.

2 + 3 have been fixed in pear-core stable branch.

References: 1. new-by-reference - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_deprecated_functionality_in_php7#assignment_of_new_by_reference 2. magic quotes - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_deprecated_functionality_in_php7#set_magic_quotes_runtime_and_magic_quotes_runtime 3. ereg - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_deprecated_functionality_in_php7#extereg 4. PHP4-style constructors - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_php4_constructors - http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=141635239219979&w=2 5. static methods and $this - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx

1. has been fixed (new by reference &new) 4. has been fixed (PHP4 constructor names)

6. E_STRICT have been converted to E_WARNING https://wiki.php.net/rfc/reclassify_e_strict#signature_mismatch_during_inheritance

6. has been fixed.

Fixed in 1.10.0dev1