Pear, PHP4 and preg_match()

[Jan Siml]

Hello,

I'm using PHP 4.3.3 and the Pear framework from the ports. When trying to
install or upgrade an existing version of the pear framework or even
modules I got the following error:

jan at alanis:/usr/ports/devel/pear-PEAR# make reinstall clean
===>  Extracting for pear-PEAR-1.2.b2
 >> Checksum OK for PEAR/PEAR-1.2b2.tgz.
===>  Patching for pear-PEAR-1.2.b2
===>   pear-PEAR-1.2.b2 depends on file:
/usr/local/share/pear/Archive/Tar.php - found
===>   pear-PEAR-1.2.b2 depends on file:
/usr/local/share/pear/Console/Getopt.php - found
===>  Configuring for pear-PEAR-1.2.b2
===>  Installing for pear-PEAR-1.2.b2
===>   pear-PEAR-1.2.b2 depends on file:
/usr/local/share/pear/Archive/Tar.php - found
===>   pear-PEAR-1.2.b2 depends on file:
/usr/local/share/pear/Console/Getopt.php - found
===>   Generating temporary packing list
===>  Checking if devel/pear-PEAR already installed

Fatal error: Call to undefined function:  preg_match() in
/usr/local/share/pear/PEAR/Frontend/CLI.php on line 53
*** Error code 255

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pear-PEAR.
*** Error code 1

The system is FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE. At 5.1-RELEASE I didn't have such problems.

Could anyone give me an advice what to do?


Regards

Jan