PECL broken after recent update for PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.3 on Ubuntu

[shivammathur]

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Describe the bug
Installing extensions via PECL is not working.
For example pecl install -f xdebug gives the following error
configure: error: cannot run /bin/bash /tmp/pear/temp/xdebug/config.sub
https://github.com/shivammathur/test-setup-php/runs/1336323786?check_suite_focus=true#step:5:37

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Update lists and install php7.3, php7.3-dev, php7.3-xml and php-pear.
2. Then run pecl install -f xdebug
3. See error cannot run /bin/bash /tmp/pear/temp/xdebug/config.sub

Expected behavior
It should install the extension via PECL.

Distribution (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu
• Architecture: amd64
• Repository: Ubuntu PPA

Package(s) (please complete the following information):

php7.3:
  Installed: 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
php7.3-dev:
  Installed: 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
php7.3-xml:
  Installed: 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 7.3.24-2+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
php-pear:
  Installed: 1:1.10.12+submodules+notgz-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Candidate: 1:1.10.12+submodules+notgz-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.10.12+submodules+notgz-1+ubuntu20.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:1.10.9+submodules+notgz-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

[oerdnj]

Thanks for the report, I have a bad day, but I think the latest upload should fix this.

The decision to copy these files into PHP distribution just so people don't have to install three extra packages (libtool, shtool and pkg-config) wasn't really the greatest of them all, but given the tendency to bundle everything in PHP sources it's not really surprising.

[shivammathur]

@oerdnj Thanks for fixing it again very quickly.