oniguruma update breaks php-7.4

[hkraal]

Just ran into the following error which was fixed by recompiling PHP. Just dropping it here in case others run into the same issue;

# /usr/local/php74/bin/php74 -v
php: error while loading shared libraries: libonig.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Apparently this is related to the upgrade of the oniguruma package from 5.9 to 6.8 yesterday;

May 10 08:44:34 Installed: oniguruma-5.9.5-3.el7.x86_64
May 10 08:44:34 Installed: oniguruma-devel-5.9.5-3.el7.x86_64
...
Jun 18 08:26:34 Updated: oniguruma.x86_64 6.8.2-1.el7
Jun 18 08:26:34 Updated: oniguruma-devel.x86_64 6.8.2-1.el7

# rpm -ql oniguruma
/usr/lib64/libonig.so.5
/usr/lib64/libonig.so.5.0.0
...

 

[smtalk]

Issue with CentOS 7 and php 7.4 during oniguruma update

Hello, We would like to make an announcement about an issue we've discovered about recent issues with PHP 7.4 on CentOS 7, requiring recompilation of PHP ("./build php n") after issuance of "yum update", even if this update was automated. Affecting Affecting systems with all 3 conditions...

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[hkraal]

Hehe, I should have searched first. I guess I was not fully awoke yet