Debian 9 with php 5.4 and 7.1

[JohnyByk]

Before Debian 8 update we had CB 2 with php-fpm (5.4 and 7.1). Nginx as reverse proxy.
Today we updated debian and after that we have some problems.

root@naruto:/usr/local/directadmin/custombuild/build versions
php 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 can not compile against openssl 1.1.0 or higher. Try php 5.6 or higher.

Everything is understood for me but we can't remove PHP 5.4 now because we must upgrade our sites.
I know that the problem stems from a higher version of openssl in Debian 9, but it have some advantages, for examle HTTP/2

Of course PHP 5.4 works on Debian 9 because we compiled this version before system upgrade. Now we can't update/ recompile PHP. If we do that, we lost PHP 5.4
Is any cheat/ possibility to run PHP 5.4 with PHP 7.1 on Debian 9?
Maybe can i skip first php version when i do build php?

Regards

Edit:
Please move this post to CustomBuild 2.0 Sub-Forum

 

[freakazoid]

I'm having the same issue.

I solved it partially by downgrading to OpenSSL 1.0.2q. I did that by compiling from source en then changing the simlink to the new binary.

But now the build script has n issue with systemd, which is installed but it's missing a library of sorts. (pre install packages are installed)

checking for sd_notify in -lsystemd-daemon... no
checking systemd/sd-daemon.h usability... yes
checking systemd/sd-daemon.h presence... yes
checking for systemd/sd-daemon.h... yes
configure: error: Your system does not support systemd.

*** There was an error while trying to configure php. Check the configure file

So, it's a route with more than one hurdle.