PHP 8.3.31 wont compile on CentOs 7

need php upgrade log https://community.centminmod.com/threads/how-to-troubleshoot-php-installs-upgrades.17857/

 

Ok figured out the CentOS 7 specific OpenSSL 1.0.2 issue with newer PHP versions and updated with a patch fix in 132.00stable, 140.00beta01, 141.00beta01. Just need to run cmupdate before retrying centmin.sh menu option 5. Issue is on PHP 8.2.31, 8.3.31 and next PHP 8.4/8.5 releases.

PHP 8.3.31 (and 8.2.31, plus all 8.2/8.3/8.4/8.5 branch HEADs) backported upstream commit 19255f4b78 which switched ext/openssl/xp_ssl.c's SAN IP address handling to OpenSSL 1.1.0+'s ASN1_STRING_get0_data() accessor - but CentOS 7 ships OpenSSL 1.0.2k which doesn't declare that function. So the compiler treats its return type as implicit int and chokes on int[0] subscripting.

Centmin Mod fixes this on EL7 only with a new patch patches/php/php82-openssl102-xp_ssl-asn1.patch that inserts a 12-line static compat shim into xp_ssl.c (mirroring PHP's own openssl.c shim) returning M_ASN1_STRING_data(asn1), gated by #if PHP_OPENSSL_API_VERSION < 0x10100, applied via a content-detected EL7-only block in inc/php_patch.inc that auto-handles current and future affected PHP point releases and skips cleanly once upstream lands a real fix.

Plain English: Newer PHP versions (8.3.31 and 8.2.31 and next PHP 8.4/8.5 releases) started using a modern OpenSSL helper function to read IP addresses out of SSL certificates — but CentOS 7's OpenSSL is too old to have that helper, so the compiler doesn't recognize the function, guesses wrong about what it returns, and gives up with a confusing error when PHP tries to grab the first byte of the address. Centmin Mod fixes this on CentOS 7 only by slipping in a tiny 12-line "translator" snippet at the top of the affected PHP file that teaches old OpenSSL how to do the new thing, and a smart detector in the upgrade script that automatically applies the fix when needed and quietly stays out of the way otherwise.

 

can be for variety of reasons including needing php-fpm optimisations/tuning see https://community.centminmod.com/threads/how-to-troubleshoot-optimize-php-fpm-server.15317/ and https://community.centminmod.com/threads/how-to-guide-for-nginx-php-fpm-debugging.17508/