Posted by m6w6 on 11th August 2015 in Mike's sudden inspirations: PHP
Testing PECL extensions on Travis-CI has always been cumbersome for me; build PHP in different versions and debug/threadsafe flavors, install PECL dependencies and so on, which usually results in a mess of command line scripts, repeated for every extension.
Enter travis-pecl.
This tiny support bin comes with a Makefile and small PHP scripts to generate the build matrix and check your package.xml file. It supports building PHP in a wide variety of flavors, installing PECL dependencies from the PECL website or from bundled pharext packages and running the testsuite with a comprehensive set of commands.
Let’s look at a few commands with a properly set up environment from the test matrix:
env:
- PHP=5.6 enable_debug=yes with_iconv=yes enable_json=yes
Build PHP:
make -f travis/pecl/Makefile php
Install a PECL dependency:
make -f travis/pecl/Makefile pecl PECL=propro
Install a PECL dependency from a pharext package, located in travis/:
make -f travis/pecl/Makefile pharext/raphf-phpng
Build the currently checked out extension:
make -f travis/pecl/Makefile ext PECL=http
Run the testsuite:
make -f travis/pecl/Makefile test
Finally, check out the README and have a look at a couple of complete examples here: