Description: ------------ Did a fresh install of PEAR using the go-pear.php found in a PHP 5 snapshot from last night on my Win32 machine. To make this really fresh, I renamed my old PEAR directory, though I did not blow away the windows registry entries. Upon completion of the process, I got this warning: ** WARNING! Backed up old pear to C:\PROGRA~1\pear\pear.bat_old Even though there was no old file really there. Plus, it was renamed the new file to pear.bat_old, leaving me with no pear.bat file.

Please try with a cvs version of go-pear (pearweb/public_html/go-pear) --Pierre

Found the problem. It's due to case sensitivity. Here's a patch: http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/pear/gopear.win32.case.diff This also solves bug #1157: pear is in the path, but go-pear says it's not.

this patch isn't quite right - you set $pearcmd to '' on non-windows platforms. It should be $pear_cmd = $bin_dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'pear'; - $pear_cmd .= WINDOWS?'.bat':''; + $pear_cmd = WINDOWS ? strtolower($pear_cmd) . '.bat' : $pearcmd; instead of $pear_cmd = $bin_dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'pear'; - $pear_cmd .= WINDOWS?'.bat':''; + $pear_cmd = WINDOWS ? strtolower($pear_cmd).'.bat' : '';

Good catch, Greg. Thanks.

Just to be clear... The patch file has been corrected.

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been fixed in the latest released version of the package, which you can download at http://pear.php.net/packages.php

I have installed current relese version of PHP5.0.3 however bug #1157 seems to still appear in my code... And i pretty new to php coding... please explain in detail how to use the patch...?

I am still seeing this problem on a new install of PHP 5.2.0. Under Windows if you do a 'clean' Pear install you end up with pear.bat_old which has to be renamed to pear.bat in order to get it working. Can someone have another look at this please?