Description: ------------ The "pear" cli utility does nothing for me. It doesn't matter if I give it valid args or not, it simply exits immediately without printing anything.

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This was from a vanilla php-5.1.1-fastcgi compile on debian stable. This is also reproduced on a seperate debian stable machine which has 5.1.0-fastcgi. PHP is otherwise working. There is no other information to give; the command simply does nothing.

I have the exact same problem in FreeBSD 5.4 with php cgi-fcgi PHP 5.1.1 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Dec 30 2005 14:00:54)

As reported in: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35455 a workaround is setting register_argc_argv = On in php.ini

This bug has been fixed in CVS. If this was a documentation problem, the fix will appear on pear.php.net by the end of next Sunday (CET). If this was a problem with the pear.php.net website, the change should be live shortly. Otherwise, the fix will appear in the package's next release. Thank you for the report and for helping us make PEAR better. the command now dies if you are (rather unintelligently) using CGI instead of CLI and have not enabled register_argc_argv. Note that setting register_argc_argv on the command-line fails in PHP 4.2, so until we no longer support this version, it is impossible.