pecl installs for previous php version

Question

I\'ve upgraded my MacBook to Mavericks and ruined my development environment. The problem I have right now is that my pear/pecl still tries to install for my previous (5.3) vers

Answer 1

Encountered similar problem recently.

(Debian, PHP 7.3 just installed, was using PHP 7.2)

If anybody tried the highest voted answer but still not working. Here are the steps to debug:

• Remove all other php versions, especially the dev package (php7.2-dev in my case)
• install the dev package for the current version (php7.3-dev)

And basically that's it.

Reason:

PECL requires phpize which is part of php-dev package. If phpize for the current version is not found, if will look for the previous version, which resulting a older PHP API number