I forgot to add: the dropdown doens't allow me to select my currently installed PHP-Version, 5.2.5. I had to manually alter it.

It requires the enchant library. What pecl asks is where it is installed (for example in /usr).

You also need the enchant library development package (-devel on many distributions).

Does it answer your question?

Gr??e,

It does now, yes. But could the actual dialog in the ./configure maybe made clearer?

Also, I though usually one would have to specify this explicitly anyway with some argument to ./configure? Actually I think over the many years of all the extension I've installed it's the first with an interactive dialog and thus I was very confused right from the start. But I understand reason, now that I think twice, because with pecl itself you would not have a way to pass the parameters I guess.

Anyway, I think the question from ./configure is not clear in that matter. Thank you.

"I though usually one would have to specify this explicitly anyway with some argument to ./configure?"

This is what the *pecl* command does when it asks you to fill this argument.

"Actually I think over the many years of all the extension I've installed it's the first with an interactive dialog and thus I was very confused right from the start."

Because other does not have a correct package.xml. You have to explicitly tell pecl each argument it has to ask (pressing enter will use the default).

"But I understand reason, now that I think twice, because with pecl itself you would not have a way to pass the parameters I guess."

Exactly.

"Anyway, I think the question from ./configure is not clear in that matter. Thank you."

And how do you want it then?

Good question. What confuses me is:

" 1. libenchant prefix? : shared"

It's saying prefix? and giving shared. Totally confusing.

I would understand  "Path to libenchant? : /usr" much better.

The next line also was confusing:

"1-1, 'all', 'abort', or Enter to continue:"

What means "1-1" and "all" ?

> " 1. libenchant prefix? : shared"
> 
> It's saying prefix? and giving shared. Totally confusing.
> 
> I would understand  "Path to libenchant? : /usr" much better.

The syntax to build a module shared when built within the php src tree is: --with-foo=/usr,shared

Not very obvious but it is how it works.

> "1-1, 'all', 'abort', or Enter to continue:"
> What means "1-1" and "all" ?

No idea, which pear version do you use?

dev01:~# pecl version
PEAR Version: 1.6.1
PHP Version: 5.2.5-2
Zend Engine Version: 2.2.0

Thanks

Not sure what to do with this ticket.  enchant has been bundled
long ago, so is irrelevant wrt. pecl.  If it is about improving
the prompt, that would be a pear-core issue[1].

[1] <https://github.com/pear/pear-core>

This is so long ago, I barely remembered this and had to re-read all of it to get the gist.

I don't think its anyone's time worth spending on this and I suggest we just close/won't fix

PS: I'm the OP

Thanks for the swift reply.  I'm closing then.