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Asked: 2026-05-23T04:21:08+00:00

I’m writing a custom homebrew formula for installing PHP. It works great except for

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I’m writing a custom homebrew formula for installing PHP. It works great except for when I need to install APC (and some others) via PECL. The PECL installation pauses to ask a few questions and causes the brew install to fail or hang due to the lack of user input.

Is there a way to simply accept the defaults in PECL? Or can Homebrew somehow send the Enter key to the system?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found a user input hack here that worked for me:

    system "printf \"no\nno\nno\nno\nyes\nno\n\" | #{prefix}/bin/pecl install -afl apc"
system "printf \"autodetect\n\" | #{prefix}/bin/pecl install -afl libevent-beta"
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