Thank you very much, el_aur.
It was my system: Problem 1: I had changed this php73 PKGBUILD to 'provide 'php'' and forgot about it that it was still installed. Problem 2: /usr/bin/php was a symlink to /usr/bin/php73, hence installation failed.
In short, after undoing/fixing the above I was successful in installing this PKGBUILD - unchanged - just fine. composer has pulled in php8.1.2, which is fine.
All working for me. Thanks again for your time and effort in getting to the bottom of this.
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el_aur commented on 2022-02-02 09:14 (UTC) (edited on 2022-02-04 11:29 (UTC) by el_aur)
Created binary repository on build.opensuse.org
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:el:archphp
For Arch Linux, edit /etc/pacman.conf and add the following (note that the order of repositories in pacman.conf is important, since pacman always downloads the first found package):
Then run the following as root
Refresh packages database
Now search for php packages you need:
Install with
pacman -S
packages you need or all PHP 7.3 packages with:el_aur commented on 2022-01-27 12:08 (UTC) (edited on 2022-01-27 15:18 (UTC) by el_aur)
Read Carefully! Breaking changes in compare with native PHP package
Console version
/usr/bin/php73
is installed withphp73-cli
subpackage,php73
doesn't include it anymore!!!PEAR and PECL are available as
php73-pear
andphp73-pecl
subpackagesAll shared modules are respresented as stand-alone subpackages and are not included with
php73
package anymore.No more extensions in php.ini itself!
Separate INI files for each extension are placed in
/etc/php73/conf.d
They are loaded in correct order according to priority