Why is 'mkdir -p /usr/src/php' deleted in one commit

[t0ny-peng]

I'm upgrading my php version from 7.0.6 to the latest version, but found that redis extension cannot be correctly installed. And the reason is that the direction /usr/src/php/ext does not exist.
But it did existed in earlier version of PHP docker, and the action of creating /usr/src/php was deleted in commit f016f5d.

I just don't know why it is deleted. Is it moved to somewhere, or what should I do to install Redis?

[daohoangson]

Would love to know why it was removed too. My workaround for this is to mkdir -p /usr/src/php/ext in Dockerfile RUN.

[t0ny-peng]

Now I see that the directory /usr/src/php is created in docker-php-source extract.
But it seems that even if I run an empty content php:7.0.12-apache container, the directory /usr/src/php doesn't exist. There's only php.tar.xz and php.tar.xz.asc under /usr/src

[tianon]

See #256 (and the linked issues from that one) for more details on that particular change.

Which Redis are you trying to install?

If it's the one from PECL, I've had success with the following:

FROM php:7.0-fpm

RUN pecl install redis-3.0.0 \
    && docker-php-ext-enable redis

[t0ny-peng]

@tianon
I'm using this method to install Redis extension.

#Redis
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/php/ext && curl -L -o /tmp/redis.tar.gz https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/archive/$PHPREDIS_VERSION.tar.gz \
    && tar xfz /tmp/redis.tar.gz \
    && rm -r /tmp/redis.tar.gz \
    && mv phpredis-$PHPREDIS_VERSION /usr/src/php/ext/redis \
    && docker-php-ext-install redis

Am I doing it in a wrong way?

[tianon]

Sorry for the delay! I'd still recommend installing via PECL instead (as I referenced above), but the usage you described should be working again as of #288. 👍