Installing PHP7 pecl extensions on Alpine 3.4 Docker Images
Problem: Cant install pecl packages on Alpine PHP7 Docker Image.
Since PHP Container is based on Alpine 3.4 which in turn does not have library memcached available.
It seems Alpine 3.4 is meant to work with PHP5. Thus creating a gap with the availability of packages for PHP7 and up. Luckily newer versions are switching to the alpine 3.7 where all the packages already available from the distro’s package source.
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