Fedora 30 : Install the last version of PHP.

I try to install the last version of PHP version 7.4.0beta2 with Fedora 30 distro the LXQt environment.
I have not used this programming language for a few years and it is a good issue to remember it.
I download teh archive from the official website and I run these commands:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd php/
[mythcat@desk php]$ tar -xf php-7.4.0beta2.tar.xz 
[mythcat@desk php]$ cd php-7.4.0beta2/
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for cc... no
checking for gcc... no
configure: error: in `/home/mythcat/php/php-7.4.0beta2':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ vi config
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ vi config
config.log    config.nice   configure     configure.ac  
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ vi config.log 

Let's try to install all requests for compiler:

[root@desk home]# dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"

Let's see if these settings working well:

[root@desk home]# dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
Waiting for process with pid 4373 to finish.
[root@desk home]# kill  -9 4373
[root@desk home]# dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
...
Complete!
[root@desk home]# dnf install libxml2-devel.x86_64
...
Installed:
  libxml2-devel-2.9.9-2.fc30.x86_64                          xz-devel-5.2.4-5.fc30.x86_64

The last dnf command come with this output:

checking for sqlite3 > 3.7.4... no
configure: error: Package requirements (sqlite3 > 3.7.4) were not met:

Package 'sqlite3', required by 'virtual:world', not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix. 

Let's test it with an old version of sqlite:

[root@desk home]# dnf install sqlite-devel.x86_64 
...
Installed:
  sqlite-devel-3.26.0-6.fc30.x86_64 

And is working well:

[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
...
config.status: executing default commands

+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| License:                                                           |
| This software is subject to the PHP License, available in this     |
| distribution in the file LICENSE. By continuing this installation  |
| process, you are bound by the terms of this license agreement.     |
| If you do not agree with the terms of this license, you must abort |
| the installation process at this point.                            |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

Thank you for using PHP.

[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ make 
... 

Build complete.
Don't forget to run 'make test'.
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ make install
...
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ make test
...
FAILED TEST SUMMARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------
php://fd wrapper: invalid file descriptor [ext/standard/tests/file/php_fd_wrapper_04.phpt]
=====================================================================

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manually, thank you.
make: *** [Makefile:201: test] Error 1
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ . ~/.bash_profile
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ which php
~/local/bin/php
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ php -v
PHP 7.4.0beta2 (cli) (built: Aug 19 2019 23:31:07) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.4.0-dev, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

Let's test it:

[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ php -i | grep 'API'
Server API => Command Line Interface
PHP API => 20190529
Zend Extension Build => API320190529,NTS
PHP Extension Build => API20190529,NTS
DOM/XML API Version => 20031129
Phar API version => 1.1.1
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ echo '' > infophp.php
[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ php -f infophp.php 
phpinfo()
PHP Version => 7.4.0beta2

System => Linux desk 5.2.8-200.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Aug 10 13:21:39 UTC 2019 x86_64
Build Date => Aug 19 2019 23:26:58
Configure Command =>  './configure'  '--prefix=/home/mythcat/local'
Server API => Command Line Interface
Virtual Directory Support => disabled
...

Use interactive mode and hit Ctr+D keys to run it:

[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ php -a
Interactive mode enabled


hello, world1636562552

I can see the compiled modules:

[mythcat@desk php-7.4.0beta2]$ php -m 
[PHP Modules]
Core
ctype
date
dom
fileinfo
filter
hash
iconv
json
libxml
pcre
PDO
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter

[Zend Modules]