opcache fails on install modules/* to extension dir

[hakre]

Description

The following code:

	@$(INSTALL) modules/* $(INSTALL_ROOT)$(EXTENSION_DIR)

Resulted in this output:

cp: cannot stat 'modules/*': No such file or directory

But I expected this output instead:

# no output

PHP Version

PHP 8.5.0 (cli) (built: Nov 22 2025 07:37:53) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.5.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.5.0, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

Operating System

Linux + Docker

[devnexen]

Hi @hakre would it be possible to see your ./configure command ?

[hakre]

@devnexen vanilla on the reproducer, only --prefix to my own staged installation directory.

full rebuild with ./buildconf --force to flatten the space.

[hakre]

IIUC this is since PHP 8.5.0 as Opcache is now non-optional but more specifically does not build any binaries/libs (.so) any longer so they can't be installed from modules/*.

[devnexen]

@devnexen vanilla on the reproducer, only --prefix to my own staged installation directory.

full rebuild with ./buildconf --force to flatten the space.

do you do it from the downloadable archives or from a git clone ? if this is the former, you usually do not do ./buildconf

[devnexen]

by the way I both tried downloading 8.5.0 and building from source and separately with PHP-8.5.0 git repo. no issue at make install

[hakre]

do you do it from the downloadable archives or from a git clone ?

Both. When in my git clone also with make distclean ahead of ./buildconf.

If you want a more portable reproducer, here is one with the tar archives executed by the official docker build:

$ docker run --rm -it --name gh-20557 php:8.5.0-cli-alpine docker-php-ext-install opcache
...
Installing shared extensions:     /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20250925/
cp: can't stat 'modules/*': No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:89: install-modules] Error 1
$ echo $?
2
$ docker run --rm -it --name gh-20557 php:8.5.0-cli-alpine env
HOSTNAME=88082970c80d
PHP_INI_DIR=/usr/local/etc/php
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
PHP_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -pie
PHP_CFLAGS=-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
PHP_VERSION=8.5.0
GPG_KEYS=1198C0117593497A5EC5C199286AF1F9897469DC 49D9AF6BC72A80D6691719C8AA23F5BE9C7097D4 D95C03BC702BE9515344AE3374E44BC9067701A5
PHP_CPPFLAGS=-fstack-protector-strong -fpic -fpie -O2 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
PHP_ASC_URL=https://www.php.net/distributions/php-8.5.0.tar.xz.asc
PHP_URL=https://www.php.net/distributions/php-8.5.0.tar.xz
TERM=xterm
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PHPIZE_DEPS=autoconf                                                                                                                                                                                                c
PWD=/
PHP_SHA256=39cb6e4acd679b574d3d3276f148213e935fc25f90403eb84fb1b836a806ef1e

[devnexen]

IIUC this is since PHP 8.5.0 as Opcache is now non-optional but more specifically does not build any binaries/libs (.so) any longer so they can't be installed from modules/*.

At first glance, it seems to me that the docker image needs to take this change in account no ? Note we do not maintain those docker images.

[hakre]

by the way I both tried downloading 8.5.0 and building from source and separately with PHP-8.5.0 git repo. no issue at make install

After you made install, you get the PHP installation including phpize. Execute it in ext/opcache, then ./configure there and then make install. It should give you that error picture.

/E: The header files can be installed, but the recipe with the modules/* breaks.

[devnexen]

To summarize, to me from PHP 8.5.0 and onwards, the docker image needs to cease to consider opcache as an extension.

[hakre]

To summarize, to me from PHP 8.5.0 and onwards, the docker image needs to cease to consider opcache as an extension.

That might be, but right now, we're having ext/opcache with these build instructions in. They fail. I'm not reporting here the issue with Docker, that did a Symfony developer already yesterday and I've given a workaround on Stackoverflow.

This is the actual error in the build recipe we ship. As written, I can confirm with git.

[devnexen]

Note that

by the way I both tried downloading 8.5.0 and building from source and separately with PHP-8.5.0 git repo. no issue at make install

After you made install, you get the PHP installation including phpize. Execute it in ext/opcache, then ./configure there and then make install. It should give you that error picture.

Maybe this step should be removed from 8.5.0, opcache being no longer build as a .so

/E: The header files can be installed, but the recipe with the modules/* breaks.

[hakre]

I have a fix, preparing a patch.... done: #20558